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National Battlefields Commission Battles 1759-1760
This video is an account of the siege of Quebec in 1759-1760 as described by those who were there. Everything you will hear is based on historic sources, such as personal letters and diaries, describing the siege of the city. Nearly 20 military and civilian witnesses tell their story. For a clearer picture of events, they are grouped together under ...
- 2020
- 00:25:47
- 9-12
- Added on: 04/21/2020
Canada: The Story of Us Worlds Collide (pre-1608-1759)
Hundreds of Indigenous nations with advanced cultures already live in Canada when French and English colonizers arrive and fight for land claims. Indigenous people suffer as a result of first contact. Features stories/events include: Turtle Island, Samuel de Champlain and early settlements, Wendat and Haudenosaunee, Filles du Roi, Radisson and Des Groseilliers, Plains of Abraham. Important note for teachers: This ...
- 2017
- 00:44:10
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/06/2017
Canada: A People's History Claiming the Wilderness
Episode 3: 1670 to 1755 CE. A small French settlement in New France builds a flourishing society and stakes a claim to a massive continent. New France's populace includes shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and landlords, as well as fur-trading expansionists like Governor Frontenac and his commercial partner, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who build a network of Indian alliances and extend ...
- 2000
- 00:51:08
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Canada: A People's History Adventurers and Mystics
Episode 2: 1540 to 1670 CE. With the search for the Northwest Passage and the expansion of the Grand Banks fishery, the New World soon becomes a destination for permanent European colonies, in Newfoundland and along the St. Lawrence. Samuel de Champlain begins his legendary journeys, and the precarious beginnings of New France are established. It is an era of unprecedented ...
- 2000
- 01:46:37
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Canada: A People's History When the World Began
Episode 1: 15 000 BCE to 1800 CE. The opening episode of this series ranges across the continent, looking back more than 15,000 years to recount the varied history of the first occupants of the territory that would become Canada. From the rich resource of native oral history and archeology come the stories of the land's first people — how ...
- 2000
- 01:48:04
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
