Early Immigration to the Shield


Targets


This lesson is about the people who came from Europe to the Shield. 

You will learn about...

  • Who came and why
  • Their lives in the early years
  • First jobs in the Shield
  • The coureurs des bois and their way of life

Introduction




If you had been one of the European men who came to the Canadian Shield in the 1600s, you might have become one of the coureurs des bois. 


You would probably have looked a lot like the men in these images.


Were other jobs available? 


This lesson will help you find details of early settlement in the Canadian Shield region.

Paul Kane, artist 1850


Portrait of John Henry Lefroy by Paul Kane, 1846