Quebec's upcoming election

If you want to understand what the different parties in Quebec are promising, here is a helpful CBC website: political platform navigator.

You may also want to see how you'd vote. Try CBC's Vote Compass!

Some light reading

La Presse, Autochtones: Les Grands Oublies

CBC, The Northern Gateway

Got it-Forgot it!

REVIEW:

First Occupants: Population, settlement, economy, and culture:

- arrived in the Americas approximately 25 000 years ago; crossed "Beringia"; Inuit groups arrived much later;
- first traces of nomadic hunters in the territory of Quebec: 10 000-12 000 years ago
- three linguistic groups, Inuit, Algonquian, and Iroquoian, developed specific characteristics over a few thousand years;
- differing ways of life, social/political organisation, subsistence activities, and trade all directly related to the territories that they occupied;
- shared certain elements (belief in spirits = animism); all hunted, fished, gathered, and traded for items/resources not found on their territory.

*Remember: I-S-M.

Rene Levesque's referendum defeat speech A short, badly edited video from People's History about the referendum of 1980, and subsequent events.

Student opposition & general malaise?

Read this article in the Gazette.

Quebec's Economic Development

Exam: Economic Development - week of May 7


Aboriginals:
Notes (1)
text, pp. 146-152
project

First contact:
text, pp. 153-156

French regime:
Notes (2)
Handouts (4)
Quiz
CT: NF economy - Weak?
text, pp. 158-173

British rule:
Notes (3)
Handouts (3)
Timeline
CT: Essay based on docs
Quiz
text, pp. 174-193

Contemporary Canada:
text, pp. 194-225
First phase and second phase of industrialisation at the McCord website

New France's economy

The life of a "voyageur" in New France.