Grade 3 Early Settlement in Upper Canada

• Where did the pioneers come from?
• Where did they settle?
• Who was already there?
• How did the pioneers use the land?
• Village Life links and information
• Web-based student learning activity sheets: Ontario curriculum links, comparison of log homes and plank homes, and how Aboriginal peoples helped pioneers are also included.

Explore the way of life of the Iroquois

• About the longhouse
• Explore the longhouse
• Explore the village 

Click on the buildings and learn what they were used for.

Explore life in Upper Canada by a virtual visit to on of the provinces best Pioneer Villages.

•  Daily Life in the 1860s
•  Agriculture in the 1860s
• Communications in the 1860s
•  Music in the 1860s
•  Religion in the 1860s
• Transportation in the 1860s
• Manufacturing in the 1860s
• Major Events of the Decade

An online game that you make the choices of an Upper Canada settler in the 1800's.

Templates of pioneer buildings to print. Although this is an American site the buildings would be similar in Upper Canada.

An online game that you make the choices of an Upper Canada settler in the 1800's.

• Coming to Canada
• Building a House - in western Canada and eastern Canada
• Life of a settler
• School, General Store, Blacksmith
• In a settlers' home
• Early Days - Transportation