Discovering Canada : our early explorers

Resource Information

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Label

Discovering Canada : our early explorers

Title remainder

our early explorers

Statement of responsibility

McIntyre Media/Mythic Productions

Subject

• Canada -- Discovery and exploration
• Children's films -- 2010
• Documentary films -- 2010
• Explorers -- Canada -- History | Juvenile literature
• Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Children's films
• Documentary films

Summary

Early explorers and navigators expanded the influence of their empires as they ventured across the oceans and borders in search of territories to colonize. This program brings to life many of Canada's earliest explorers. Beginning with the arrival of people across the Beringia Land Bridge, students will learn about the explorers who first came to and explored Canada. Along with learning about who these explorers were, we explain the reasons they came, what they were hoping to find here, and their early contact and intervention with Canada's aboriginal societies. Students will meet Leif Ericsson, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Kelsey, George Vancouver, Simon Fraser, David Thompson, and of course, our original explorers, the First Nations people

Intended audience

• CHV rating: "Not rated."
• Grades 4 to 7

Runtime

26