1. Atlantic Canadian Culture: Quiz Review

2. Culture:
Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

3. Material Culture:
Material culture refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. These include homes, neighborhoods, cities, schools, churches, temples, offices, factories and plants, tools, means of production, goods and products, stores, and so forth.

4. Melting Pot: Cultural Mosaic:
A melting pot is a metaphor for a society where many different types of people blend together as one. America is often called a melting pot.
Cultural Mosaic:
A cultural mosaic is a description of a nation that considers the different races, ethnicities and otherness of its citizens essential to its existence.

5. Why do People Migrate?
The “Push and Pull” of migration.

6. Global Culture:
Global culture is something that is done all around the world. culture is defined as a way of life therefore a global culture is something that is done worldwide.

7. Regional Culture:
Something that is done in a specific area of the world. This could be a country, or string of provinces (like Atlantic Canada).

8. Local Culture:
The term local culture is used to describe the experience of everyday life in specific, local communities. It reflects ordinary people's feelings of fun, comfort, and correctness. It also defines personal preferences and changing tastes.

9. Settlements of Canada Aboriginals The First Europeans (Vikings)
The French (Acadians)
British Loyalists

10. Aboriginals
The Aboriginal people in Canada consist of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. These cultures have occupied Canada for thousands of years, some believe they migrated from Asia long before anything was documented. These people lived off the land settling on rivers and lakes to have access to clean water. The Aboriginals are known as the very first settlers of Canada.

11. The Vikings
The Vikings were the first Europeans to discover and inhabit parts of Canada. They arrived from Iceland on their way to Greenland about 1000 years ago, their ships were blown off course and they settled in Newfoundland and Labrador. There are remains of their settlement that can still be visited today!
More European exploration began in 1497 with John Cabot’s Crew. John Cabot was the first to draw a map of the East Coast.

12. The French/Acadians
Settlers from France arrived in Canada to stay in This crew lead by Samuel de Champlain on St. Croix Island. This settlement was very harsh and many of the settlers died over the winter. The survivors later moved and settled in Acadia (Modern day Nova Scotia).
The French settlers and the Aboriginal people battled for claim to the land for much of their early years. They later made peace based on a fur-trade economy.

13. Loyalists
The Loyalists from Britain played a big part in the colonization of New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada as a whole. In 1776 a group of colonies south of modern day Quebec formed the United States. The Loyalist were people that remained loyal to the British crown and fled America to settle in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Loyalists we know today consist of Dutch, British, German, Scandinavian, and Aboriginal Descent.