Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 9
Champlain & New France
Founding Quebec City and building New France
What your child practises
Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City in 1608. Children learn about New France: the fur trade, alliances with the Wendat, Algonquin and Innu, habitants and seigneurs, and how New France compared with the British colonies.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Samuel de Champlain and the establishment of Quebec City and New France · Champlain, the founding of Quebec in 1608, alliances with First Nations and life in New France
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Champlain travelled far inland by…
🛶- bus
- airplane
- train
- canoe, with Indigenous guides
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canoe, with Indigenous guides
Hint: Rivers were roads and Indigenous guides knew the routes.
Question 2
Why did the French build their capital on the river instead of far inland?
🚢- there was no river
- for warmer weather
- to be near the Rocky Mountains
- the river was the main route for trade and ships
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the river was the main route for trade and ships
Hint: The river linked France to the colony.
Question 3
Quebec comes from an Algonquin word meaning…
🌊- cold water
- where the river narrows
- big mountain
- city of kings
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where the river narrows
Hint: The river becomes narrow at Quebec.
Question 4
What was the first building Champlain had built at Quebec called?
🏠- the Skyscraper
- the Habitation
- the Mall
- the Parliament
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the Habitation
Hint: It was a small group of wooden buildings for living and trading.
Question 5
Why did both First Nations and the French want to trade?
🔄- they had to by law
- no one needed anything
- only the French wanted goods
- each had goods the other wanted
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each had goods the other wanted
Hint: Trade helped both sides.
Question 6
Who founded Quebec City in 1608?
🏰- Samuel de Champlain
- John Cabot
- Louis Riel
- Jacques Cartier
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Samuel de Champlain
Hint: Champlain built a small fort-home there, called the Habitation.