Grade 7 History New France / BNA / Creating Canada (HIHA7)
Credits and Contributions
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Learning Activity 1
Métis chasing the Buffalo herd [watercolour painting], Paul Kane, Stark Foundation, Orange County, URL: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/Métis, Published 1864, Accessed 09/08/2021.
Netsilik-inuit på fangst - A Netsilik Inuit hunting, Nationalmuseet - National Museum of Denmark, Published 1921, Accessed 13/01/2026.
The Forges, River St. Maurice, Joseph Bouchette, Library and Archives Canada, URL: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=2837486, Published 1832, Accessed 09/08/2021. LAC #C-4356. Published in Joseph Bouchette, "The British Dominions in North America" (London, 1832).
Extrait d'un plan du Domaine de la Seigneurie de St Hyacinthe. [cartographic material], J. P. Reneault Blanchard, Library and Archives Canada, URL: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4129580, Published May 1844, Accessed 09/08/2021. LAC #H3/340/St-Hyacinthe/1844 Box number: 2000213434.
Lake Huron Beach, Southampton, Unknown Photographer, Toronto Public Library, URL: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-PCR-1421&R=DC-PCR-1421, Published 1910, Accessed 09/08/2021. PC-ON 1941.
Canada Post Stamp, Canada Post Corporation, URL: https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/news-and-media/corporate-news/news-release/2025-01-30-new-black-history-month-stamp-features-marie-joseph-angelique, Accessed 13/01/2026. © Canada Post Corporation, 2025. Reproduced with permission.
Montreal fire of 1734, Canada Post Corporation, URL: https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/news-and-media/corporate-news/news-release/2025-01-30-new-black-history-month-stamp-features-marie-joseph-angelique, Accessed 13/01/2026. © Canada Post Corporation, 2025. Reproduced with permission.
Learning Activity 2
Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Margaret Besheer, Voice of America News, URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syrian_refugees_in_lebanon.jpg, Published 03/09/2012, Accessed 09/08/2021. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWvHr-0BXhc.
Early French Settlements Around the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1497–1620, Robert H. Labberton, University of South Florida, URL: https://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/6900/6944/6944.htm, Published 1886, Accessed 09/08/2021. New Historical Atlas and General History (New York, NY: Townsend MacCoun, 1886) Plate LVIII. Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman.
Trading at a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, Henry Alexander Ogden, University of Calgary, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company#/media/File:Indians_at_a_Hudson_Bay_Company_trading_post.jpg, Published 1882, Accessed 09/08/2021. Glenbow Archives NA-1041-6.
The Mystery Files - The Mystery of Top Hats, Timber and Dried Fish, Apartment 11 Productions, URL: https://www.tvokids.com/school-age/mystery-files/videos/mystery-top-hats-timber-and-dried-fish, Published 21/04/2017, Accessed 09/08/2021.
Learning Activity 3
The Expulsion began in 1755, William Dunn and Linda West, Canada: A Country by Consent, URL: http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1755/index.html, Published 2011, Accessed 09/08/2021. Artistic Productions Limited.
Expulsion of the Acadians from Île Saint-Jean, Lewis Parker, URL: http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/finna/finna6a.html, Published 2011, Accessed 09/08/2021.
The Expulsion of the Acadians, 1893, George Craig, Université de Moncton, URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deportation_Grand-Pr%C3%A9.jpg, Published 1893, Accessed 09/08/2021.
The reading the Order of Expulsion to the Acadians in the parish church at Grand Pré, 1755, Charles William Jeffreys, Library and Archives Canada, URL: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=2835217, Published ca. 1920, Accessed 09/08/2021. Acc. No. 1972-26-768.
Ships Take Acadians Into Exile, Claude T. Picard, URL: https://www.cbc.ca/acadian/timeline.html, Published n.d, Accessed 09/08/2021. Parks Canada/0308010004.
Syrian Refugees in Northern Ontario. Copyright © The Agenda with Steve Paikin/The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO). All rights reserved.
People in refugee camp, RadekProcyk/Editorial RF/Getty Images
Learning Activity 4
Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading Wampum belts in Brantford, Ontario, Electric Studio, Library and Archives Canada, URL: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=3193501&new=-8585716031950069154, Published 14/09/1871, Accessed 09/08/2021. LAC # c085137.
The Mystery Files - The Mystery of the Big Deal, Apartment 11 Productions, URL: https://www.tvokids.com/school-age/mystery-files/videos/mystery-big-deal, Published 14/04/2016, Accessed 09/08/2021.
Learning Activity 5
Encampment of the Loyalists in Johnstown, a new settlement on the banks of the River St. Lawrence in Canada West, taken June 6th 1784, James Peachy (artist), Reproduction by J.R Simpson, URL: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/agriculture/big/big_17_loyalist_encampment.aspx, Published 1925, Accessed 09/08/2021. Archives of Ontario, I0003081.
Loyalists Drawing Lots For Their Lands, C.W. Jefferys, Library and Archives Canada, URL: https://www.cwjefferys.ca/loyalists-drawing-lots-for-their-lands, Published 1945, Accessed 09/08/2021. The Picture Gallery of Canadian History Vol. 2, p.25.
Loyalists Landing, Adam Sherriff Scott, URL: http://www.canadiangeographic.com/atlas/LessonPlan_Pdf/NS_6-8_Migration.pdf, Accessed 09/08/2021.
Loyalists Camping on the St. Lawrence, 1784, C.W. Jefferys, Library and Archives Canada, URL: https://www.cwjefferys.ca/loyalists-camping-on-the-st-lawrence-1784?mid=0, Published 1934, Accessed 09/08/2021. Canada's Past in Pictures, p.91. Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1972-26-1369.
Bedford Basin near Halifax, Robert Petley, URL: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=2837294, Published 1835, Accessed 09/08/2021. LAC # C-115424 / Acc. No. 1938-220-1.
The Death of Major Peirson, John Singleton Copley, Published c. 1784, Accessed 16/12/2025. Created by John Singleton Copley, 1782-1784. Part of the Tate Collection.
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Sir Joshua Reynolds, URL: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/8802, Published c. 1765, Accessed 16/12/2025. As seen in: Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
General Sir Henry Clinton, Andrea Soldi, URL: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/general-sir-henry-clinton-17381795-40948, Published c.1765, Accessed 16/12/2025.
An illustration of Richard Pierpoint, Wang Qijun, Accessed 12/01/2026. Material from The Kids Book of Black Canadian History written by Rosemary Sadlier and illustrated by Wang Qijun. Kids Can Press Ltd.
A black wood cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, William Booth, Published c. 1788, Accessed 16/12/2025. Reference: Nova Scotia Archives, National Archives of Canada C-040162 W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana.
Ships of free slaves from Nova Scotia arrive in Sierra Leone, January 15, 1792, Artist Unknown, URL: https://cpcml.ca/Tmlw2014/W44007.HTM, Accessed 09/08/2021. Courtesy of Robert G. Kearns, private collection, Toronto.
Citation: Loyalists in Canada, Article by Bruce G. Wilson, Updated by Richard Foot, Andrew McIntosh, Tabitha Marshall, URL: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/loyalists, Published 12/08/2021, Accessed 13/08/2021. Courtesy of Historica Canada.
Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), oil on canvas, William Berczy, URL: https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/thayendanegea-joseph-brant, Published circa 1807, Accessed 09/08/2021. National Gallery of Canada/5777.
Joseph Brant and Mohawks at Grand River, C.W. Jefferys, Library and Archives Canada, URL: https://www.cwjefferys.ca/joseph-brant-and-mohawks-at-grand-river?mid=0, Published 1945, Accessed 09/08/2021. The Picture Gallery of Canadian History Vol. II, p.26. Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1972-26-69.
Learning Activity 6
The Quebec Act, 1774, British Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/PU/1/1774/14G3n226 1774), British Parliamentary Archives, URL: https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliament-and-empire/collections1/collections1/quebec-act/, Published 1774, Accessed 09/08/2021. HL/PO/PU/1/1774/14G3n226.
Portrait of General James Murray, oil on canvas, Unknown Artist, URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Murray.jpg, Published circa 1770-80, Accessed 09/08/2021.
Chloe Cooley stamp, Canada Post Corporation, URL: https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/news-and-media/corporate-news/news-release/2023-01-29-black-history-month-stamp-honours-chloe-cooley, Accessed 13/01/2026. © Canada Post Corporation, 2025. Reproduced with permission.
Learning Activity 7
Winnipeg – First Nations (modern territorial agreement/treaty) and Métis, Government of Canada, Published 26/06/2020, Accessed 30/04/2026. Indigenous Learning Territorial Acknowledgement. This reproduction is a copy of the version available at csps-efpc.gc.ca.
The City of Toronto Land Acknowledgement, City of Toronto, URL: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accessibility-human-rights/indigenous-affairs-office/land-acknowledgement/, Published Tue Jan 01 2019 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Accessed 30/04/2026.
Limestone District School Board - Land Acknowledgement, Limestone District School Board, URL: https://www.limestone.on.ca/indigenous-education, Published n.d, Accessed 30/04/2026.
Delta School District Land Acknowledgement, Delta School District, Accessed 30/04/2026.
This Land is Our (Title) Land. Copyright © The Agenda with Steve Paikin/The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO). All rights reserved.
The Fur Traders at Montréal, George Agnew Reid, URL: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=2836988, Published 1916, Accessed 09/08/2021. LAC # Acc. No. 1990-329-1.
"Fishing by Torch Light," Menominee, Paul Kane, Royal Ontario Museum, URL: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/225819/fishing-by-torch-light-menominee, Published 1846, Accessed 09/08/2021. Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Gift of Sir Edmund Osler.
The Algonquin Land Claim. Copyright © The Agenda with Steve Paikin/The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO). All rights reserved.
Voyageurs at Dawn, Frances Anne Hopkins, URL: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=2894477, Published 1871, Accessed 09/08/2021. LAC # Acc. No. 1989-401-3 / e011154434.
Learning Activity 8
Chief Obwandiyag, John Mix Stanley, URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pontiac_chief.png, Published 1800s, Accessed 09/08/2021.
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