PPT Slide
3. What is the ‘great irony’ of European contact with Aboriginal peoples in Canada and what are the two physical activities in particular which are good examples? (4 marks)
- in part the Europeans claimed to be ‘civilizing’ the Natives, when in practice many Europeans including fur traders and soldiers, later colonists, would not have survived without the skills of the bush and the skills of transport which they learned from their Aboriginal guides
- examples – snowshoeing, canoeing