| A | B |
|---|
| Inuit | Native people's of Canada |
| Kanata | Inuit word for "settlement" |
| Jacques Cartier | Explorer who claimed Canada for France |
| Quebec | "Hearth" of French culture |
| "Seignioral" land system | King of France's way of controlling settement |
| Habitant | One who pays land rent and fees |
| long lots | designed to utilize river s for transportation |
| coureurs de bois | French fur trappers |
| Hudson's Bay Co. | English chartered trading company in Rupert's land |
| 1750's | French and English engaged in open hostility |
| 1759 | "the conquest" English capture Quebec |
| Samuel de Chamlain | Discovered the St. Lawrence river |
| Loyalists | Colonists who fled to Canada in support of the British King |
| Quebec Act of 1774 | Allowed French to keep language, religion, etc. |
| Anglicize | To make British |
| Francophone | Someone who speaks French |
| British North America Act, 1867 | Founding constitution of Canada |
| 1949 | Last province, Newfoundland, enters union |
| Transcontinental RR | brought immigrants to Canada |
| Metis | people of French and Indian descent, pushed aside by immigrants |
| Louis Riel | Martyr to the cause of Native freedom |
| Mountees | established to protect all peoples on the Canadian frontier |
