Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 6
First Meetings in Atlantic Canada
Trade, friendship and conflict when peoples met.
What your child practises
Practises the interactions between the first and founding peoples of Atlantic Canada: early French settlements, trade and alliances, Acadian dykes, conflict between empires, and how contact affected Wabanaki Peoples. The content is light and in the present tense for living communities. It follows the Grade 5 social studies skill descriptor on events and peoples in the New Brunswick curriculum.
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.
Question 1
Why did French settlers learn to use birchbark canoes?
- They could fly
- They were heavier than ships
- They were light and good for rivers and carrying overland
- They were made of metal
They were light and good for rivers and carrying overland
Hint: Wabanaki Peoples have built and used these canoes for a very long time.
Question 2
How did Acadian farmers turn salt marshes into farmland?
- They built dykes to keep out the sea
- They covered the marsh with sand
- They dug giant wells
- They used pumps powered by electricity
They built dykes to keep out the sea
Hint: The rich marsh soil grew good crops.
Question 3
How did trade change some daily tools for many Wabanaki families?
- Canoes were no longer used at all
- Everyone stopped cooking
- Nothing changed
- Metal kettles and knives replaced some tools made of bark, stone or clay
Metal kettles and knives replaced some tools made of bark, stone or clay
Hint: Trade goods were useful, but they also created new needs.
Question 4
Which is an example of cooperation between peoples?
- fighting over a harbour
- refusing to trade
- burning a village
- sharing food and knowledge to get through the winter
sharing food and knowledge to get through the winter
Hint: Cooperation helped newcomers survive.
Question 5
Which question would help you understand an interaction in the past?
- What time is lunch?
- How did each group benefit or lose?
- How tall is the moon?
- What is my favourite colour?
How did each group benefit or lose?
Hint: Historians ask who gained, who lost and why.
Question 6
Why did the French move from Saint Croix Island to Port-Royal in 1605?
- They were told to go home
- The island had little fresh water, firewood or shelter from the wind
- They wanted a bigger beach
- The island sank
The island had little fresh water, firewood or shelter from the wind
Hint: Port-Royal was across the Bay of Fundy.