1. History Unit #1: NEW FRANCE

2. 1530s – France began to send explorers to find new, unknown lands

3. First Nations peoples lived on North American continent for thousands of years before explorers
Relied on land for: food, clothing, shelter, transportation and medicine
Respected: animals, weather, seasons, land & water

4. 1534 – King of France sent Jacques Cartier to explore
Must find two things:
Shipping route to Orient to import goods to Europe
Precious gems and metals to make France rich

5. In 3 weeks, Cartier arrived off coast of Newfoundland
He kept going to find “new” land in Quebec and Montreal
Cartier spent winter (almost all crew got scurvy - disease caused by lack of vitamin C)‏
Went back to king with a boat of rocks (not diamonds)‏
Never came back, felt he had failed at finding route & discovering riches 

6. Samuel de Champlain – went in 1603 and made many voyages until 1635 with same goals as Cartier
Made an alliance with the Huron people (First Nations peoples) – one of his shots killed two Iroquois

7. Champlain was a cartographer (map-maker)‏
20 years working tirelessly to build a colony for France
Nickname: “Father of New France”

10. Jesuit priests were sent as missionaries to New France
1611 Jesuits arrived with 2 goals: spread Roman Catholic religion to First Nations & start boys school

11. Ursuline Nuns led by Marie Martin in 1639 to go to Quebec and convert the First Nations people to Catholicism
Started a convent (community of nuns, dedicated to God)‏
Started girls schools for First Nations and settlers daugthers

12. Next class... Interactions between Aboriginals & Explorers