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Title: War and the Foundation of Canada - Permanent European Settlement
 
Type: Document
Description: During the 16th century, European fishermen, whalers, traders, adventurers, and explorers visited the eastern seaboard of North America and established a lucrative fur trade by the early 1600s. While fishermen and whalers had generally co-operated with First Peoples in exchanging goods, permanent European settlement and involvement in the fur trade with Hurons and Algonkians soon led the French to join these nations in their war with the Iroquois Confederacy.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: War and the Foundation of Canada - New France's Militarized Society
 
Type: Document
Description: From 1650 to 1760, French settlements in Québec City, Montréal, and Trois-Rivières created a society organized for war. Under the order of Louis XIV, King of France, every man underwent mandatory military training. Supported by allies of the First Peoples and a small garrison of professional soldiers, the Canadien militia formed the backbone of the colony's military forces until the Seven Years' War (1756-1763).
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: War and the Foundation of Canada - New France And The Iroquois Wars
 
Type: Document
Description: Samuel de Champlain shot and killed two Iroquois chiefs in 1609 at Ticonderoga. This set off a long, bitter war between the French colonists and the Iroquois Confederacy.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: War and the Foundation of Canada - Clash Of Empires
 
Type: Document
Description: Eventually war erupted in North America between competing English and French colonies during the 17th century. In 1713, France ceded much of Acadia (now New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) to Britain and abandoned its claims to Newfoundland. They retained control of Cape Breton, where they built the fortress of Louisburg to protect their fishing and shipping interests.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: New France, New Horizons - On French Soil in America
 
Type: Document Sound
Description: During the 16th century, following the discovery of the rich fishing banks off Newfoundland, France became the first European nation active in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. In 1604, France created a permanent settlement there, laying the foundations of a country that would develop its own culture. This portal provides access to a virtual exhibition and a database containing more than one million images of archived documents from France and Canada.
Site: Library and Archives Canada
 
Title: The White Flag As A Battle Flag
 
Type: Document
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Description: With origins in the Wars of Religion of the early seventeenth century, an all white flag symbolized France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was flown over military outposts and from ships' masts throughout the existence of the colony of New France.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Amerindian warrior brandishing a scalp
 
Type: Image
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Description: This print shows a classic European vision of scalping. The process was widespread amongst both the forest and plains Amerindians, and dates back to at least the early 16th century. Scalps were viewed as trophies of war, part of a ritual act of retribution on an enemy.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Records of the 4th International Colloquy on Military History (Ottawa ...
 
Type: Document
Description: Introduction by W.A.B. Douglas, Director Directorate of History, Program Chairman. Articles in a variety of languages including: English, German, French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Greek.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Canada's First Warriors
 
Type: Interactive Resource Document
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Description: A slide show presentation of Native American dress from the 16th to mid-18th century.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: The Destruction Of Huronia
 
Type: Document
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Description: The Iroquois and Hurons were locked in a brutal struggle. Although both were ravaged by epidemics and armed by European colonists, it was the Huron nation that was effectively destroyed.
Site: National Defence
 
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