Explorer Resources

All about Explorers: http://allaboutexplorers.com/

Early Canadian Explorer webquest (watch the VIDEOs): http://jennythomson.weebly.com/early-canadian-explorers-lesson-plan.html

Explorer clipart for classrooms:

http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/Explorers

 

Make your own Trading Cards:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/trading_cards_2/

Make your own Timeline with photos:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/

Explorers:

  1. ALPHABETICAL list of Explorers: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passages-ef/passages/h8-247-e.html

LISTS of CANADIAN Explorers

  1. http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/explorers-kids/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/kids/h3-220-e.html
  2. http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/resources/gr4explorers/links.htm
  3. http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/resources/gr5explorers/links.htm
  4. http://web.archive.org/web/20071231013220/http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/slezak/exhotlist.html
  5. http://web.archive.org/web/20031228205431/http://www.lafete.org/new/v_ger/ex/explE.htm
  6. http://www.civilization.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/introduction/
  7. Explorer Research info on Enchanted Learning: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/

Samuel de Champlain

1. Paintings and sculptures of Champlain: http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/Resources-and-Learning/Exhibits/Samuel-de-Champlain–Perspectives/Artistic-representations.aspx

Fur traders and Explorers

  1. Neat Fur trade page for children: http://www.saskstories.ca/english/work/furtrade/governance/index.html
  2. Fur trade and the Hudson’s Bay Company (The Bay) http://www.canadiana.ca/hbc/intro_e.html
  3. Fur Trade http://web.archive.org/web/20031208230858/http://www.lafete.org/new/v_ger/fur/f_mainE.htm
  4. Fur trade http://www.whiteoak.org/historical-library/fur-trade/fur-trade/
  5. The Fur Trade Voyageurs’ Life http://web.archive.org/web/20031208194202/http://www.lafete.org/new/v_ger/indexE.htm
  6. Visit FORT WILLIAM in Thunder Bay online http://www.fwhp.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=283&Itemid=283 This is the setting for The Red Sash book by Jean E. Pendziwol
  7. Online Voyageur Games: http://www.tfo.org/emissions/rendezvousvoyageur/en/youth/index.html

Source: http://www.tfo.org/emissions/rendezvousvoyageur/en/film/index.html

The Fur Trade and First Nations People:

  1. http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_furtrade/fp_furtrade4.html

 

 

Pioneers:

Neat Pioneer page for children: http://www.saskstories.ca/english/work/settlers/index.html