1. What conditions provided the context for the emergence of games and pastimes (sports)?

2. Settlers and Patterns of Settlement
The Fur Traders
Settlers and Patterns of Settlement
Economy and Work
Religion
Social Life

3. Europeans to North America
Fishing
Souls
Gold
North west Passage
Colonies
fur

4. 1497: John Cabot, exploring for King Henry VII of England, stumbles on Newfoundland's cod fishing grounds. "The sea there is swarming with fish, which can be taken not only with the net, but in baskets let down with a stone," he later wrote.

5. Gabriel Sagard
Hurons

7. French Colonial Period
Chronology
French Colonial Period
New France

8. Samuel de Champlain

9. (The Order of Good Cheer)
L’ordre du Bon Temps
(The Order of Good Cheer)

12. Life in New France
Coureurs de Bois
Voyageurs

17. Film – The Voyageurs National Film Board 1964

18. Seigneurial System
Company of 100 Associates
Protection
Social life

20. Settlers

23. Survival

25. Sod House - Prairies

27. Economy

30. Work/Entertainment

31. Religion/Social Life

33. Summary – early pastimes, games, and competitions
The physical, economic, social: masculinity/competition
Settlement
survival
church