Unit 1

Early Canada

Skill Builders Targets

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  1. Continue to add answers to your Chapter 4: Competition for Trade Notes document (that you started in Lesson 1) as you work through this lesson.

    Use the chapter notes for Lesson 2 as you read this lesson.

  2. Read pages 81 to 85 of the textbook to read more about the appointed officials of New France and how the Great Peace of Montreal ended tensions between the various groups.

    French settlers and the First Nations lived in peace and benefited from each other's knowledge.

  3. Read page 86 of the textbook, which shows the vast difference between the French and English in what they wanted from the fur trade.

  4. Read page 87 of the textbook to see what life was like at a trading post.