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Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 8

Early Visitors to Newfoundland and Labrador

Norse, Basque, English and French voyagers, and what they left behind.

What your child practises

Your child learns who came to Newfoundland and Labrador long ago, why they came, and how historians use sources such as archaeology and maps to find out. It also reminds them that Indigenous peoples were already here and still are. This is practice, not a report-card mark.

Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum curriculum outcome: Time, continuity and change (by Grade 6) · early visitors and settlers to Newfoundland and Labrador and what they left behind

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

    Which of these is a primary source?

    • a movie about Vikings
    • a website that sums up history
    • a textbook written last year
    • a diary written by a sailor on a voyage

  2. Question 2

    Which people ran a whaling station at Red Bay in the 1500s?

    • the Dutch
    • the English army
    • the Basques
    • the Norse

  3. Question 3

    In which part of the province is Red Bay?

    • the Avalon Peninsula
    • Labrador, on the Strait of Belle Isle
    • the Burin Peninsula
    • the Bonavista Peninsula

  4. Question 4

    A secondary source is…

    • a photo taken at the time
    • a letter written during the event
    • a tool found in a dig
    • a book written later about events in the past

  5. Question 5

    In 1497, John Cabot sailed across the Atlantic for which country?

    • France
    • Spain
    • England
    • Portugal

  6. Question 6

    Jacques Cartier sailed through the Strait of Belle Isle in 1534. Which country did he sail for?

    • Portugal
    • England
    • Norway
    • France

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