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Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 6

Explorers and Settlers

Why Europeans came

What your child practises

Norse voyages, Cabot, Cartier, Champlain and Hudson, and why Europeans came: routes to Asia, fishing, the fur trade, claiming land and spreading religion, from the point of view that Indigenous peoples already lived here.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: History: Events and Peoples · interactions between the first and founding peoples of Atlantic Canada

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is a colony?

    • A type of fur
    • A territory settled and controlled by another country
    • A kind of ship

  2. Question 2

    Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River for which country?

    • Norway
    • England
    • France

  3. Question 3

    Which was an early settlement attempt by the Norse?

    • Port-Royal
    • Québec
    • L'Anse aux Meadows

  4. Question 4

    Put these events in order from earliest to latest.

    • 🌊Jacques Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence (1534)
    • 🏘️Champlain founds Québec (1608)
    • 🧭John Cabot reaches Newfoundland (1497)
    • ⛵Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows (about 1000)

  5. Question 5

    Which country sent Henry Hudson on his voyage to the bay later named after him?

    • Norway only
    • Spain only
    • England (and Dutch traders also hired him earlier)

  6. Question 6

    Which explorer is linked to the early French settlement of Québec?

    • Henry Hudson
    • Samuel de Champlain
    • Jacques Cartier

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