Assignment #6 Black history month ( Mathieu Da Costa )

Hi bloggers,

This is my assignment #6 blog. The assignment was to write something about an important figure in Canada's history who has African descent. Thus the title BLACK HISTORY MONTH Assignment!





Mathieu Da Costa was very important in Canadian history. He was the first recorded black person in Canada. He was a very gifted interpreter in the crew of Pierre Dugua, the sieur de mots, and Samuel de champlain, he was said to have known Dutch, French, Portuguese, and pidgin basque, which was the dialect that many aboriginals used for trading purposes, therefore I think that he might have been very crucial in the trade with the aboriginals. For this reason Champlain gave Da Costa the job of interpreter, who's talents helped bridge the gap between the europeans and Mi'kmak people. It is thought that he came to Canada some time before 1603, to learn the M'ikmak dialect. Some people say that he travelled the St.Lawrence river and worked somewhere near Canada's Atlantic coast (which is located on the east side of Canada).
A question that is frequently asked is how did he learn how to communicate with the aboriginals,the answer to that question is that the aboriginal dialect might have been similar to an African dialect (probably the one from his home land in Africa).


This information was found on wikipedia


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Assignment #5

The assignment is to do research on how the native canadians and european settlers lived through the cold winters. Here is what I got :


The settlers from France had a good reason to stay in Canada and that's why I think they ended up staying in the end. The reason was that in New France (colony in Canada) farmers all had land to grow their crops on.

One thing that settlers did to survive the cold was make sure that they had warm animal pelts. Therefore they started the fur trade to be able to keep themselves warm using the furs of the animals (e.g beaver).

A lot of people that I know had pretty much one or two reasons for moving here, job opportunites and a better life.My family moved to Canada on April 1st. 2005. We already my aunt living here for a while (I'm not sure when she moved here) and she helped us settle a lot faster. At first the trip to Canada was just supposed to be a vacational trip, I was very excited for it because back then I heard so many great things about Canada for example the weather is beautiful ( not really ). The only thing that I was really afraid of was that there would be no soccer because in those days I used to think things like "all year long snow for Canada" or "the only sport they play there is hockey". After a while my arents told me that we were going to move to Canada permanantly, once again at first I was excited but then I realized that I wouldnt get to see my friends from Germany and my dream of becoming the best soccer player in the world was starting to slip away because of the shortage of soccer or interest in soccer in Canada. I started to worry about everything. After the first few days in Canada I was fed up! Sure it wasnt all year winter but the things that people were saying to me just made me so angry, but whenever I told my mom she said that we moved to a great country with a lot of job opportunities. I thought otherwise but im starting to get used to it and things change after a while. We haven't moved back yet because of the job opportunities.

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Assignment #4

Hey Bloggers,



This is my assignment #4 blog.

1.) I liked one of hasan's ideas it said : "I think Canada will improve a lot in those upcoming 100 years, maybe they'll find a cure for cancer." I like this idea because of all the things that have already been done to find a cure for cancer. For example Terry Fox running across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Or how every year a lot of people gather together to do a Terry Fox run to raise money kind of like how he did. I find this idea very realistic and I agree with him on this subject because of the reasons I listed above.

2.) Another blog that acaught my attention was Timmy's. I liked his ideas and they also got me started on my blog all I did was add some of my personal experiences and thoughts to it. This is the part that I examined the most: "Gee, there're a lot of things to talk about a 100 years from now like space travel, politics, environment, and society but I hope that the future will be positive because when I come back in another life, I don't want to suffer for my actions."

3.)My next and last example of a blog that I liked about assignment #3 was Firas' Blog he said that he wasnt sure about 2109 because of all the doomsday precitions in 2012. I remembered hearing those predictions a while ago. I think that nobody knows when the world is going to end and I find it weird for people to think that they know when the world is going to end, and on top of that when I told her about the 2012 story she said that people were predicting the same thing about the year 2000, and yet here we are 9 years after that and the world hasnt ended because of the collision of another planet that the devil lives on (that's what I heard I think this is a very inaccurate story that depends on what people believe in) or an asteropid or comet hitting the earth and destroying it.

Talinho

What will Canada be like in 100 years?

Hello everyone welcome to assignment #3

The question asked by Christopher Moore (click the link to the left of these brackets to see his blog) is: What will Canada be like in 100 years

I think that in 100 years Canada will have changed a lot. I have some views that may be somewhat believable on this topic and some paranoid or strange thoughts but these are the ones that came to my mind.

In 100 years I think Canada will be along side the rest of the world on the planet Mars. The idea of humans moving to Mars seemswird and impossible to me, but I was never really able to shake it off and forget about after watching some documentary t.v show kind of thing about it while I was still in Germany (I think I was like 5 or 6 when I saw it).

Another thing that might happen is that the type of government wehave in Canada might change . Some places used to have a monarchy ruling their country ( monarchy means that you have the birthright to be head of the country, no votes). Canada might end up being known as one of the countries that used to have a government based on democracy.

In my opinion the main main things that are probably going to change in the future though are opinions on things, ways of life, and technology (by technology I dont mean mean as far as flying cars). I think that opinions will change a lot because they can easily be changed with just a convincing argument. Technology always seems to be advancing. One day you here about a college student making a computer system for police cars (I'm not sure if it was a college student or someone else), the next day there are rechargeable batteries on sale. The point is that something new happens every day and that there is no way to predict exactly what is going to happen tomorrow, let alone 100 years


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Welcoming blog

welcome to my blog. I am a grade 8 student in Ottawa, Canada and I will be learning and writing about history on this blog, I hope you guys enjoy my posts. Please feel free to comment.
I feel kind of nervous and very excited to get to do my history class on the internet.
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