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Title: Pierre Lemoyne d'Iberville - Claiming the Wilderness
 
Type: Document
Description: The story of Pierre Lemoyne d'Iberville, a fierce French-Canadian leader. D'Iberville attacked many English settlements in Newfoundland with the intent of destroying the English fishing trade. This article, which provides a few details of those attacks, is taken from the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Attack on Schenectady - Claiming the Wilderness
 
Type: Document
Description: A brief description of the guerilla raid on Albany in the English colony of New York by Canadian militiamen and Indians. It began with an attack on the fortified English village of Schnectady, which had been ordered by Frontenac and led by coureurs des bois. Taken from the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Phips' Attack on Quebec - Claiming the Wilderness
 
Type: Document
Description: A brief description of the attack on Quebec led by Admiral William Phips. This was in response to the attack on Schenectady by the French. Taken from the television series entitled "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
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: Nobles and Commoners
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
Description: The French nobility wanted to forbid commoners positions as military officers. Louis XIV favoured competence above all else, but his successors gradually capitulated. The colonial forces were attractive to non-noble officers, since the nobility preferred to stay in France.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: The White Flag As A Battle Flag
 
Type: Document
Online Reference Books
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
Online Reference Books
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
 
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