1. Chapter 7
Canadian Legacies

2. Early Cultural Contact in Canada.
Throughout the 1500s ships from Britain and France were sailing off the Canadian East Coast in search of fish.
The early contacts were usually friendly and benefited both sides.
Europeans at first had no interest in creating permanent settlements.

3. Colonization in Canada
In the second half of the 1500s European men started wearing felt hats in various styles.
In search of new sources of beaver fur, European hatters turned to North America.
As a result the focus on exploration turned from finding a route to Asia to finding better ways of collecting furs.

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6. Clashing Social Values
Unlike Europeans for whom social status was based on land ownership and wealth, the First People of North America recognized few social or class distinction.
First People believed that they were not owners of the land, but spiritual guardians of the land.

7. Europeans Believed in Written Treaties.
First People Believed in Verbal/Oral Treaties.
Europeans Believed in Written Treaties.

8. The Destruction of the Beothuk
European fishers set up their drying racks on the summer fishing sites of the Beothuk.
The Beothuk tried to drive away the new comers by stealing and destroying their equipment.
Natural response of course was for the Europeans to begin hunting them and killing them.

9. Beothuk Continued… The Beothuk were driven inland.
Without access to fish their traditional summer food they became undernourished and susceptible to European disease.
By 1829 the only known Beothuk died due to tuberculosis and as such we see the eradication of a peoples.

10. Beothuk

11. Europeans Gain Foothold
New comers built fortified villages that they defended.
European muskets were superior to traditional weapons.
Conflicts between tribes allowed Europeans to build alliances with certain First Nation tribes.
European disease weakened First People.

12. The Seven Years War Crash Course
FOUGHT BETWEEN FRANCE AND BRITIAN
FOUGHT BECAUSE OF TRADE
FOUGHT BECAUSE THEY WANTED PROFIT MADE FROM NORTH AMERICAN AND OTHER COLONIES.
BOTH FRANCE AND BRITIAN ARE IMPERIAL POWERS.
BRITIAN WON BUT TOOK MASSIVE MAN LOSS.

13. SEVEN YEARS WAR

14. Exit Slip …
How did Globalization impact early Canadian Colonization? (5 Marks)