Memory Match Game

Canadian Social Studies: Explorers and Early Stakeholders

 Explorers and Stakeholders

Samuel De Champlain Captain George Vancouver John Davis/Davys

 Explorers and Stakeholders

Demasduit Chief Donnacona Jacques Cartier

 Explorers and Stakeholders

Franois Grav Du Pont William Epps Cormack Captain James Cook

 Captain Vancouver: Historical
Significance/Historical Date

Best known for his Explored and

179195 expedition charted North
that touched five America's
continents and northwestern Pacific
changed the course Coast regions,
including British
of history for the Columbia
indigenous nations (Vancouver Island),
and several Alaska, Oregon, and
European empires. Washington.
 Captain James Cook: Historical
Significance/Historical Date
British explorer,
navigator, Commissioned in
cartographer, and 1766 as commander
captain in the Royal of HM
Navy and made Bark Endeavour for
detailed maps of the first of three
Newfoundland prior Pacific voyages.
to making three
voyages to the Pacific
Ocean.
 William Epps Cormack: Historical
Significance/Historical Date
Scottish-Canadian
explorer,
philanthropist,
agriculturalist and Interested in
author, born St. Johns, studying and trying
Newfoundland. to preserve Native
Cormack was the first culture, he founded
person of European the Beothuk
descent to journey Institution in 1827.
across the interior of
the island.
 Jacques Cartier: Historical
Significance/Historical Date

Breton explorer who

claimed what is now
Canada for France.
The first European to
describe and map the
Gulf of Saint
Lawrence and the
shores of the Saint
Lawrence River.
Made three
voyages to the land
now called Canada,
in 1534, 1535 and
1541
 John Davis/Davys: Historical
Significance/Historical Date

He led several voyages Discovered the

to discover the Falkland Islands
Northwest Passage (today a British
and served as pilot Overseas Territory)
and captain on both in August 1592
Dutch and English
voyages to the East
Indies.
 Franois Grav Du Pont: Historical
Significance/Historical Date
He is known to have
traded furs in the In 1600, he and
New France, since the Pierre de Chauvin
late 1500s reaching de Tonnetuit
Trois-Rivires in that founded a fur
year. Worked with trading post at
local First Nations Tadoussac.
tribes and his nephew
Samuel De
Champlain.
 Chief Donnacona: Historical
Significance/Historical Date
Jacques Cartier
kidnapped this
Iroquois Chief and
brought him to France Died of scurvy in
to speak about a land France in 1539. He
called Kingdom of was away from his
Saguenay. This people and his
whetted the French country.
appetite for more
exploration of Canada.
 Demasduit: Historical Significance/
Historical Date
Thought to have been January 1820, she
about 23 years old when was released to
she was captured by the rejoin her kin, but
English near Red Indian she died of
Lake. The governor of tuberculosis while
Newfoundland was making the trip back
seeking to encourage to Notre Dame Bay.
trade and end hostilities
between the Beothuk
and the English.
 Samuel De Champlain: Historical
Significance/Historical Date

He is important to
He founded New Canadian history
France and Quebec because he made
City on July 3, 1608.
the first accurate
map of the coast
and he helped
establish the
settlements.