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- smallpox
- a contagious disease unique to humans
- Champlain
- French explorer who first colonized New France
- Louis-Joseph Papineau
- Leader of the French in the assembly in Lower Canada
- Quebec Act
- Signed in 1774, intended to reorganize the way these British territories were governed
- Lord Selkirk
- A Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony
- Lieutenant-Governor
- Head of government in Quebec
- Battle of Seven Oaks
- took place on June 19th 1816 during the long dispute between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies in western Canada
- Stadacona
- Site of present day Quebec City
- Hochelaga
- Site of present day Montreal
- Metis
- inhabitants of the area around Red River. They were of mixed blood-French and Scottish- fur traders and natives
- Family Compact
- Wealthy ruling group who controlled Upper Canada
- McDougall
- first lieutenant-general of Manitoba
- dispersal
- The act or process of spread out or the condition of being disperse
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham
- Quebec was captured after this battle
- Wolseley
- commander of the Canadian Red River force
- culture
- the way a group of people live
- Hudson Bay Company
- founded in 1670 in London, England, by a group of British merchants eager to exploit the resources of northern Canada.
- culture area
- an area where people share many features of the same culture
- Rupertsland
- land given to Hudson Bay in North-west Canada
- Champlain
- the "father of New France," was born between 1567 and 1570 in the town of Brouage, a seaport on France's west coast and died in 1635 in Québec
- Jacques Cartier
- French explorer
- kanata
- This means village in the Iroquois language
- The Cree
- a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana
- geology
- The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth
- maize
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears