French and English voyages: Cabot, Cartier, Champlain, Hudson and the search for a northwest passage

Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet

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   Jacques Cartier's three voyages from Saint-Malo, 1534 to 1542

   Voyage 1 (1534), blue arrow: Saint-Malo, France, April 20, with two ships and 61 men; Newfoundland, 20 days later; Chaleur Bay, where Cartier thinks he may have found a passage to Asia and Mi'kmaq people trade with him on July 7; Gaspé Bay, where more than 200 people from the village of Stadacona are fishing and a cross is raised on July 24 to claim the land for the king of France, and their chief, Donnacona, objects; home to Saint-Malo, September 5. Voyage 2 (1535 to 1536), red arrow: Saint-Malo, May 19, with three ships; up the St. Lawrence River to Stadacona, where Donnacona, a chief of Stadacona, meets Cartier on September 14; on to Hochelaga, a village of nearly 2,000 people, reached October 2; back to Stadacona for the winter; Saint-Malo, July 16, 1536. Voyage 3 (1541 to 1542), green arrow: Saint-Malo, May 23, 1541, with five ships; a camp at Cap Rouge, near Stadacona; home in 1542. Key: a gift box is presents Cartier gave; a coin is gold and rich things Cartier hoped to find; a cross is a cross raised by Cartier; a leaf is white cedar tea, the cure for scurvy; a house is a village. Below the map: two sons of Donnacona, Domagaya and Taignoagny, were taken to France in 1534 and came back in 1535 as guides. They told of the great river and of a 'Kingdom of the Saguenay' full of gold. In May 1536 Cartier took Donnacona and nine others to France; nine of the ten did not survive there, and one girl's fate is unknown. By the early 1600s the French found no trace of the villages Cartier had seen: the St. Lawrence Iroquoians had left the valley, and sources differ on why.

2. 1.

   Where did Cartier trade with Mi'kmaq people on July 7, 1534, Ren asks?

   • Chaleur Bay
   • Cap Rouge
   • Gaspé Bay
   • Hochelaga
3. 2.

   How many ships sailed on Cartier's second voyage, Zee asks?

   • Sixty-one
   • Two, as in 1534
   • Three
   • Five, as in 1541
4. 3.

   How many years passed from the start of Voyage 1 (1534) to the start of Voyage 3 (1541), Ari asks?

   • 8 years
   • 7 years
   • 3,075 years
   • 70 years
5. 4.

   Voyage 2 began May 19, 1535, and ended July 16, 1536. About how long was it, Bo asks?

   • About 2 years
   • About 14 days
   • About 14 years
   • About 14 months
6. 5.

   Why did Cartier go to the head of Chaleur Bay in 1534, Jun asks?

   • To trade at Hochelaga
   • To fish for cod
   • To find the St. Lawrence River
   • He hoped it led to Asia
7. 6.

   What led Cartier back to the St. Lawrence in 1535, Kira asks?

   • A map from the Mi'kmaq
   • Tales of a great river and gold
   • A king's wish for cod
   • A treaty with Stadacona
8. 7.

   What helped the French in the winter of 1535 and 1536, by the key, Luz asks?

   • Spices from Asia
   • A white cedar tea
   • Fresh cod from Newfoundland
   • Gold from Hochelaga
9. 8.

   Who gained a claim to land when Cartier raised the cross at Gaspé Bay, Milo asks?

   • The Mi'kmaq
   • The king of France
   • The people of Hochelaga
   • Donnacona and Stadacona
10. 9.

    Who lost most when Cartier took ten people to France in 1536, Noah asks?

    • Donnacona and the others taken
    • Cartier's crew
    • The people of Hochelaga
    • The king of France
11. 10.

    Which sentence about Stadacona is fair to both sides, Pia asks?

    • The French gained a cure; Stadacona lost people
    • Stadacona's people gained most, from trade goods
    • The French lost most, to scurvy and cold in winter
    • No one gained or lost anything in those years