1. FIRST CONTACT

2. FIRST CONTACT
Historians accept today that some of the earliest face to face contact in Canada may be unrecorded
For example, evidence of trading exchanges with European settlers and encounters with Basque fishermen

3. FIRST CONTACT
Historians today acknowledge that contact was a series of events, not just one initial meeting between Europeans and Aboriginals leading to settlement.
Numerous stories of Irish Monk St. Brendan reaching the Americas
No confirming evidence has been found
Contacts dated back to the 15th or 16th centuries for First Nations in Atlantic Canada, to the 18th century for Aboriginals in the West Coast, to the 20th century for many northern Native peoples

4. FIRST CONTACT KNOWN CONTACTS The Vikings
First recorded face to face contact took place in Newfoundland with Viking settlements
Lief Eriksson called this place Vinland
These European settlers called Aboriginals “skraelings”

5. FIRST CONTACT KNOWN CONTACTS
There is evidence of numerous contacts between European voyages to North America in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Major impacts on Aboriginal life
Cabot and the Beothuk 1497
Cabot went searching for a passage to China. He landed in Newfoundland