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Wilds of North America-reading

Keep a list of evidence of the hardships faced on the journey and the page you found them on.

  • 36 portages (98),
  • dislikes early mornings (103),
  • currents in the river-tracking (105),
  • rainy weather (115)
  • portaging up a waterfall-narrow,losing footing,clay/mud-very soft, 10 ft high (106)

Keep a list of quotes that show his attitude towards being out in the woods and the page number.

  • eager about learning to hunt (109)
  • happiest time in the northwest (110)
  • abundance of opportunities (110)
  • wild and romantic career (110),
  • enjoys his meals (105)
  • whole scene was indescribably romantic and novelty, and amusement, (113)
  • profound stillness…fills the soul with awe, (113)
  • few things are more beaituful or delightful than crossing a lake in the woods on a lovely morning at sunrise

What are portages?

  • when you cant take rivers anymore and have to walk everything.

Who are the people that the author is taking his voyage with and where are they from?

  • brigade=voyageurs (french Canadians) = metis missionaries.

Describe the type of transportation they will use.

  • boats-large canoes, wooden, 4000lbs of cargo, 13, broad and long

What is pemmican and where is it from?

  • dried buffalo meat, ground up mixed with fat (from red river)

What is a “pipe” of time and what was it used for?

  • break between periods of rowing-take a smoke break

What is the author trying to learn how to do?

  • learn how to hunt

Describe the relationship between the First Nations and voyageurs at Norway House. 

  • relaxing on the grass, playing cards

What evidence was there that Europeans already had an influence on First Nations?

  • voyageurs had fur trade already established, missionaries had church already built

How does the author describe the area as he heads to Fort Garry?

  • swampy, inlet, tower of church seen from anywhere in town, well cultivated farms, Indian settlement, people look healthy wealthy houses.
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Urban Vs. Rural/Womens equality since the 19th Century

When  it was becoming more popular to move to Canada because of the fur trading and the abundance of it because essentially it was a business that produced a lot of money. It made the clothes and hats and shoes etc.  Many fur traders were living in Canada at the time for many months and years even.  Lack of white European woman to marry to in Canada since Canada was still very un-populated eventually led them to meet and marry the aboriginal woman. This also helped with the actual business of the fur trading as their aboriginal wives were the daughters or family to the aboriginal groups that helped them survive and collect the fur.  The aboriginal woman were known as country woman.

Characteristics expected of woman in: 

URBAN SETTING:

  • cooking
  • curing meat, baking, cheese, butter
  • make and repair clothing
  • make candles and soap (domestic responsibilities)
  • men make the decision to move to Canada, women expected not to questions
  • spend as little as possible so you can build your house/barn asap

RURAL SETTING:

  • physically active
  • cheerful
  • making changes for the good of the land
  • practical knowledge in baking, cooking, knitting, dress-making, cultivating milk and cheese
  • knowing survival skills for their husband to depend on
  • not focused on vanity or flare of social standing
  • most woman will be FN or metis
  • responsible for food
  • marred to a fur trader
  • gifts are exchanged for the daughter
  • FN would have access to forts/trading posts
  • interpreters, navigators (guides) for traders
  • survivals skills from the wife (food)
  • helped traders make canoes and snow shoes

Explain how far womens equality has progressed sine the early 1800s:

 

Compared to today there is still the mindset that woman should do domestic and household particularities, but its not as popular as today. Also woman don’t have to move with their husband but it still happens only in today’s  time woman ave more of a choice.  Education is also something that woman have today that we can use to progress into a more successful career so i think today there is just more freedom and opportunities.

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Week 4-Math 10

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ABOVE: question 2.b) pg.138

I found it really difficult to understand how to do the caliper measurement in imperial units.  I researched and asked for help.

An inch in imperial units is divided in 16 parts and within those parts its divided in 32 and then 64, just multiplying by 2 starting with 4.

So when we are reading the course reading which is the main “ruler” the one that doesn’t move in the middle we have to read it as a fraction of a inch. its two measurements ( the course and then the vernier) that we have to find out and then add together to get our total measurement.

understanding that we cant mix the metric which is centimeter and millimeters and the imperial which is fractions.

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Life In Upper Canada

FARMING:

pioneer homestead, Chatham, Upper Canada 1828 P.J. Bainbrigge

I chose this picture for farming because it shows the people involved and the actual landscape. First you see the farmer talking to a man with a top hat who most likely is the owner of the land. Behind them you can see the crops growing and the cleared area of forest he has created his farming lot in. A cow is waiting on the bridge who seems to be attached to some sort of carriage. The log hut is a good indication that he built his own house using the nearby trees.

 

SOCIALS CLASS:

King St. E., looking e. from Toronto St., Young, Thomas, Year/Format: 1835, Picture

Here you can see how the people are dressed in nice gowns and with the head boquotes and the men in all black suits. n the background you can see maybe parliament or court houses very polished and clean. There’s a paved way for the people. Closer to the front you see an Ox pulling grains and cloth with the farmer/ trades men nearby possibly there to sell and trade with other merchants.

King St. E., looking e. from Toronto St.

RELIGION:

Court House and Jail, York, Upper Canada. 1829. NORTH SIDE OF KING, EAST OF TORONTO STREET, 1829 (JAMES PATTISON COCKBURN) This watercolour shows the jail and courthouse – both built in 1824 – and the first St James’ Church of 1807 after being enlarged between 1818 and 1821. Library and Archives Canada, C-149951

In the description to this picture it names the buildings. The first one we see is the court house then the jail and at the far end slightly tinted blue we see the church. Religion was obviously extremely important and held to a high standard. It was so important t was placed along file with the court house implying that both law and religion go hand in hand.

 

 

LAND ISSUES:

Crown and Clergy Reserves, Newtown, Upper Canada, with one-seventh of the land held for clergy reserves, and oneseventh to produce government revenue, c. 1800. National Archives of Canada, NMC288

This is a chart from the clergy showing the empty squares as the lots of land that they didn’t use or developed as for farming but kept in case they wanted to sell the land for a  mora expensive price. The other land parts which were often not as good they rented to the villagers/farmers.

 

LOYALTY TO BRITAIN:

Encampment of the Royal Regiment at London, Canada West. Artist: Ainslie, Henry Francis, 1803-1879. June, 1842

I see cut down trees and British soldiers because there wearing red. People moving to Canada came from Europe therefore they were loyal to Britain as Britain still was their main leader.

 

 

 

 

 

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Week 3-Math 10

my aha moment was when in an equation with exponents i in ally understood that when there is an exponent outside of the bracket it only is going to affect the first number to its left and that the far left number of the first one in the equation is only to be times the exponent and the first one is to be times the number of times the exponent number is.

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The Economy of Cordillera

SECTION ONE

NUMBER IS BY THOUSANDS

  1. Goods producing sector-2,336.9
  2. Agriculture-5
  3. Forestry fishery oil and gas-7
  4. Utilities-0
  5. Construction-4
  6. To the Cordillera region (BC) the most valuable things here are:

 

  1. Goods such as fruit and vegetables from the okanagan
  2. Farming
  3. Lumber and the trees, fish mostly salmon, gas oil from the mountains
  4. Utilities like pipelines, energy, electricity, and gas
  5. Lumber for building houses and the improvement of the city

 

SECTION TWO

Based off of 2014:

Top 5 industries in province

  • Real estate and rental and leasing
  • Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Health care and social assistance
  • Energy sector

How much do they make?

  • 36,583
  • 17,039
  • 14,625
  • 13,688
  • 12,336

The most valuable to the region is the real estate and rental and leasing, with making 36,583 in 2014

Gdp rose 2.6% in bc

 

SECTION THREE

Specific example of how humans have altered the physical geography for the industry

The company name is Kalesnikoff Lumber. It is located in Thrums, British Columbia, Canada. It is about halfway between Vancouver, BC and Calgary, Alberta. Located near the Canada, USA border. Kalesnikoff operates in an interior fertile temperate rainforest in the Kootenay region also known as the “wet-belt”. Kalesnikoff alters the physical geography by cutting down trees and forests. This leads to wildlife species deteriorating or moving to other parts of Canada. The species can become invasive to that part of Canada. This can cause the invasive animals to start taking a toll on that part of the land. They cut down the trees for more wood to make everyday things like furniture and household goods. This has an effect on the land because it deteriorates the trees in the forest. With the amount that logging companies such as Kalesnikoff are cutting down, our forests could be gone in the next hundred years or so. Trees play a role in absorbing greenhouse gases that cause global warming so by cutting trees down it speeds up the process of global warming.

 

 

Citations

 

“The British Columbia Economic Accounts.” Economic Accounts. Web. 12 Feb. 2016.

 

“The British Columbia Economic Accounts.” Economic Accounts. Web. 12 Feb. 2016.