1. EARLY SETTLEMENT IN THE WEST By Bryson, Mai Mai, Sam, Dyllan & Andrew

2. Today we are going to talk about how things are different today from long ago.Canada’s map has changed, land costs way more, there are more communites—even High Prairie’s been discovered and settled!

3. EARLY SETTLEMENT  What made early settlers want to come to what is now Alberta?

4. THIS IS WHAT CANADA LOOKED LIKE BEFORE IT BECAME A COUNTRY IN 1867

5. Early settlers came to Alberta for the really CHEAP land! 160 acres was only $10

6. IMMIGRANTS BECAME SETTLERS.

7.  Ask the audience. HOW DID MISSIONAIRIES START COMMUNITIES?

9.  Father Emile Grouard used a printing press to print books in Native languages!  This was the first time Native languages were ever written down! Before they only spoke their languages. DID YOU KNOW?  The town of Grouard is named after him!

10.  Ask the audience. WHO KNOWS WHAT NWMP STANDS FOR?  Clue:

11. HOW DID NWMP PROVIDE SAFETY IN THE WEST?  They brought law and order to stop the whiskey trade.  They showed to western prairies that they had to follow Canada ‘s laws.  They helped stop the US from taking our land.

12. HOW DID THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY CHANGE THE WEST? 1879 Work on the railroad begins in British Columbia and heading east. Many Chinese workers were hired. The railroad took 6 years to be built from one end of the country to the other!

13. HAVING THE RAILWAY FROM ON END OF THE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER -Made travel easier and faster -Communities could share goods

14. IN WHAT WAYS DID EARLY SETTLERS CONTRIBUTE TO WHAT IS NOW ALBERTA? They built schools, hospitals, and farms and made communities.

15. THANKS 4 WATCHING

16.  A whole bunch of things about Alberta's past  How the NWMP stopped the whiskey trade  How missionaries made communities  How settlers had to expand to the west and how they stopped the US from taking their land WHAT WE LEARNED