GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bering Strait, John Cabot, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada
Document Summary
We look at 3 topics: aboriginal canadians, poverty in canada, trends in canadian agriculture. 30,000 years ago bands of hunter-gatherers travelled across beringia (now called the. Bering strait), into what is now northern canada and alaska. Glaciers retreated 18,000 years ago, and these people needed to migrate south east and west to colonize much of the canadian landscape. In 1497: european contact began with the indigenous when john cabot landed on the shores of nfl. 1534: jacques cartier landed in nb, setting the stage for the english/french rivalry that would influence canada as a country, and the future of the natives. Canadas indigenous people have a rich culture, with diverse languages, and over 600 bands in 7 distinct culture regions. The native population in canada before having european contact was between 30,000 and 50,000. The populations of individual tribes varied according to the environmental conditions (larger number of people in the south)
