Hunting Treasure | Canada: The Story of Us: Episode 2
- What was the central motivating factor for Europeans to settle Canada: new land opportunity/ escaping tyranny/ economic potential/ great views
- Duncan McCue says that Canada’s enormous natural resource wealth “has defined the way we see ourselves.” How has it donethis? How has our relation to the land shaped us as Canadians?
- Jim Balsillie says that “Canada is a nation built on dreamers who dreamed of building a better future for themselves, for their family, and for ultimately what became our country.” Who is William Hazen?
- What are the two competing companies that drive West?
- Aside from stealing horses, what were Chat Ka’sgoals goals in the horse raid?
- How did the horse change the buffalo hunt for plains First Nations People? How did the introduction of the rifle effect the buffalo?
- What makes up the food “pemmican”?
- What did William Bell produce to change how pioneers lived?
- Who is Maquinna?
- What West Coast animal has the “richest fur in the World”?
- How did First Nations economic principles effect the fur trade?
- What did Alexander Mackenzie’s group set out to accomplish?
- Name three things that Mackenzie needed to successfully find a route from the East to the West: