An online flash interactive game that invloves the student in the develoment of New France from the perspective of The French, The British, The Canadian, and Amerindian. The student clicks on the hotspots in turn.

The Gateway provides Canada’s military history dating back to 1000 A.D. It offers access to over 4000 online links to military history, with resources such as digitized books, music, art, photos and video, narratives, interactive games and scholarly research. The target audience - youth, educators and life long learners can use online tools to access the military history resources of all the partners. These tools include a graphical timeline to navigate quickly through centuries, decades and years, to a specific time in Canada’s military history and will also include in the near future an array of learning resources and lesson plans.

Select a century from the timeline to access resources from the database. You can create a personal account to keep track of your personal research called 'My Gateway'. 

• Online Reference Books
• Learning Resources

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•    Learning Centre: Young Explorers
• Publications- order free copies
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• Map- Click on the menu at the top of the map to see the progression of the fur trade in North America
• E-Books - Adventurers and Tales from the Bay
• Image Gallery     

Use the lower menu to follow the content of Les Coureurs des Bois

The history of the fur trade, the personalities, stories, a timeline and links to primary sources.

• Personalities: Samuel de Champlain, Etienne Brule, Madelaine de Vercheres and others
  
• Stories: Coureurs de Bois, Filles du Roi: the King's Daughters 
• Timeline

The history of the fur trade, the personalities, stories, a timeline and links to primary sources.

• Personalities: Samuel de Champlain, Etienne Brule, Madelaine de Vercheres and others
• Stories: Coureurs de Bois, Filles du Roi: the King's Daughters 
• Timeline

• Activities - Birch Bark Containers, Single Ruffle Cap
• New France
• Educational Resources: Lesson plans and rubrics

 Explorers and maps of North America. Use the menu on the left to access more information.

English and French

• Samuel de Champlain: timeline with indexes, Voyages, Experiences, Multimedia, Regions, Activities
• Seasons of New France: Life in New France - Flash version, Non-flash version
• Acadia: Lifestyle in the days of our ancestors: Use the menus to explore the life of Acadians
• Christmas Traditions In New France
• Collections: artifacts found in Museums

Lesson plan  with hand-outs. Includes: graphing activities, with a presentation focus.  Census data is provided on-line.

English and French

Online census data where you can create online charts and graphs. Password is available to Canadian schools. Contact your site administrator to register. (Simcoe County Schools are registered to use this service. See your teacher-librarian for information)

A primary source document from a soldier in the battle.

Summary of the battle of Plains of Abraham. 

A France and USA joint project that explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. Includes direct digital access to complete books, maps, prints, and other documents.

• The Colonies
• Acadia and Canada
• Samuel de Champlain - description and primary documents
• Coureurs de Bois
• Treaty of Paris
• France in America- Chronology
• Descriptive Maps - Great Maps

Ancestors of Robert Perrault

Biographies of French explorers and explorers of New France.

A written account with paintings.

• Articles about the Seven Years' War

A summary of the events of the campaign on Quebec.

Depiction of the tactical events of the battle of the Plains of Abraham. 

Primary source documents.

 Cursor through the document to locate the Grade 7 New France strand.

•  Activities - Birch Bark Containers, Single Ruffle Cap
• New France
• Educational Resources: Lesson plans and rubrics

Included in the banner is a clickable timeline.

• Episode summaries - see Episode 3, 4 , & 5 for New France information
• Teacher Resources: elementary, secondary, copyright rules for classroom viewing. There are printable resources- password required, free use with password. Free password for MARC records for downloading.

Explorers and maps of North America.

• Expanding in all directions - use the menu on the left to access more information

• Teaching Guide
• Mission

A France and USA joint project that explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. Includes direct digital access to complete books, maps, prints, and other documents.

• The Colonies
• Acadia and Canada
• Samuel de Champlain - description and primary documents
• Coureurs de Bois
• Treaty of Paris
• France in America- Chronology
• Descriptive Maps - Great Maps 

English and French

• Samuel de Champlain: timeline with indexes, Voyages, Experiences, Multimedia, Regions, Activities
• Seasons af New France: Life in New France -Flash version, Non-flash version
• Acadia: Lifestyle in the days of our ancestors
  Use the menus to explore the life of Acadians
• Christmas Traditions In New France
• Collections: artifacts found in Museums

• The Explorers
• The People
  • Les filles du Roy
  • Les coureurs des bois
  • Yoyageurs and Hired Men
  • The Habitantin New France
  • The seigneurs
  • The Soldiers
• The Adventure in New France Pierre Boucher, Interpreter and Explorer

Inuit
Northern Algonquians
Southern Algonquians
Northeastern Iroquoians
Southeastern Indian Peoples

Ancestors of Robert Perrault

Artifacts presented for each letter of the alphabet.

• Biographies of :
• Cartier, 1534-1536
• Champlain, 1604-1616
• Brûlé, 1615-1621
• Nicollet, 1634
• De Quen, 1647
• Des Groseilliers, 1654-1660
• Radisson, 1659-1660
• Perrot, 1665-1689
• Cavelier de La Salle, 1670-1687
• Albanel, 1672
• Marquette, 1673-1675
• Jolliet, 1673-1694
• Greysolon Dulhut, 1678-1679
• Hennepin, 1678-1680
• Lahontan, 1684-1688
• Chevalier de Troyes, 1686
• Le Moyne d'Iberville, 1686-1702
• Lamothe Cadillac, 1694-1701
• La Vérendrye, 1732-1739

 Primary source documents.

Lesson plan with hand-outs. Includes: graphing activities, with a presentation focus.  Census data is provided on-line.  English and French

Includes information on early exploration, early French settlement, Acadians, Upper Canada Loyalist, population in the 1800s, addition of place names in Canada.

On-line census data where you can create on-line charts and graphs. Password is available to Canadian schools. Contact your site administrator to register. (Simcoe County Schools are registered to use this service. See your teacher-librarian for information)

Brief Sketches of the Jesuit Martyr-Saints: John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, Noel Chabanel, Issac Jogues, Rene Goupil, John de Lalonde.

• Exhibition - 350 archival documents sorted by 12 themes: Departure, Navigation, Discovery, Encounter, Settlement, Foundation, Daily Life, Administration, Trade, Worship, Warfare, Survival

• Historic Outline and use of the fortress

• Fortress of Louisbourg Timeline
• Food at Louisbourg
• The Community
  Outlines, food and diet, clothing, education, homes and living conditions
• Gardens of Louisbourg

• The Louisbourg Primer
  Outlines life in Louisbourg for the military and the inhabitants

 The history of The Fortress of Louisbourg.

Use the menu at the top of the page.

Primary source documents.

• Permanent European Settlement
• New France and the Iroquois Wars
• New France's Militarized Society
• Clash of Empires
• The Seven Years' War
• The Siege of Quebec
• The Fall of New France

Depiction of the tactical events of the battle of the Plains of Abraham.

A summary of the events of the campaign on Quebec.

Summary of the battle of Plains of Abraham. 

A primary source document from an officer in the battle.

A written account with paintings.

• Articles about the Seven Years' War