Across
- 6. A wealthy French landowner who distributed narrow riverfront farming plots to habitants.
- 7. A complete political tie or gridlock where equal opposing sides cannot pass any laws.
- 9. A policy where an empire expands its power and wealth by controlling new territories.
- 13. The exclusive right granted by a king to a single merchant or company to control all trade in an area.
- 14. The fifth province created in 1870 as a direct result of the Red River Resistance.
- 15. The Métis leader who stood up to Canadian surveyors and set up a provisional government.
- 17. The radical reformers who took up arms in Upper and Lower Canada during the uprisings of 1837.
- 19. High-energy survival food made of dried bison meat, fat, and berries that powered the fur trade.
- 20. Economic system where a mother country gets rich by taking raw materials from its colonies.
Down
- 1. Decision-making process where everyone on the council must discuss an issue until they all agree.
- 2. The explorer whose crew marooned him in a massive northern bay that was later named after him.
- 3. Massive, permanent wooden home shared by dozens of families in a Haudenosaunee clan.
- 4. The unique traditional language developed by the Métis people.
- 5. A group of Irish-Americans who launched armed raids across the Canadian border, speeding up Confederation.
- 8. The forced military removal of the Acadians from their homes by the British in 1755.
- 10. Portable, bark-covered shelter used by the semi-nomadic Mi'kmaq and Anishinabe.
- 11. The house of parliament created to give smaller provinces an equal regional voice to balance population differences.
- 12. Hired, licensed canoeists who physically paddled furs down wilderness water routes.
- 16. People who supported the British King and fled the United States for Canada after 1776.
- 18. The French explorer who built a permanent fur trade post at Quebec City in 1608.