GEO 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Red River Colony, Red River Rebellion, Manitoba Schools Question
13 Oct 2016
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The arrival of the first people in north america. The colonization of north america by france and england. The influx of people from central europe and czarist russia: confederation: in 1867, it was due to the passing of the british north american act. 3 first nations group in canada: metis, indies, inuits. Canada as a young and an old country. Archeologists estimate north america"s first people were old world hunters who arrived via the beringia land bridge 40,000 years ago. The great melt began around 15,000 years ago. The old world hunters migrated into the heart of north america. The corridor theory- through which the old world hunters migrated to the. Three groups: clovis culture 11,500 to 10,500 bp, folsom culture 11,000 to 10,200 bp is made of unfluted stone, plano culture 10,000 to 8,000 bp - unfluted stone. Pleistocene overkill- head smashed in buffalo jump in alberta.
