EARLY SETTLEMENT IN THE WEST

By Bryson, Mai Mai,

Sam, Dyllan & Andrew

Today we are going to talk about how

things are different today from long

ago .Canada’s map has changed, land costs

way more, there are more communites—

even

High Prairie’s been discovered and settled!

EARLY SETTLEMENT

What made early settlers

want to come to what is now

Alberta?

THIS IS WHAT CANADA LOOKED LIKE BEFORE IT

BECAME A COUNTRY IN 1867

Early settlers came

to Alberta for the

really CHEAP land!

160 acres was only

$10

IMMIGRANTS BECAME SETTLERS.

Ask the audience.

HOW DID MISSIO NAIRIES START COMMUN ITIES?

Father Emile Grouard used

a printing press to print

books in Native languages!

This was the first time

Native languages were ever

written down! Before they

only spoke their languages.

DID YOU KNOW?

The town of Grouard is

named after him!

Ask the audience.

WHO KNOWS WHAT NWMP STANDS FOR?

Clue:

HOW DID NWMP PROVIDE SAFETY IN THE WEST?

They brought law and

order to stop the

whiskey trade.

They showed to

western prairies that

they had to follow

Canada ‘s laws.

They helped stop the

US from taking our land.

HOW DID THE COMING OF THE

RAILWAY CHANGE THE WEST?

1879 Work on the railroad

begins in British Columbia

and heading east. Many

Chinese workers were

hired.

The railroad took 6 years

to be built from one end of

the country to the other!

HAVING THE RAILWAY FROM ON END OF THE COUNTRY

TO ANOTHER

-Made travel easier and

faster

-Communities could share

goods

IN WHAT WAYS DID EARLY SETTLERS

CONTRIBUTE TO WHAT IS NOW ALBERTA?Click icon to add picture

They built schools,

hospitals , and farms

and made

communities.

THANKS 4 WATCHING

A whole bunch of things about

Alberta's past

How the NWMP stopped the

whiskey trade

How missionaries made

communities

How settlers had to expand to

the west and how they stopped

the US from taking their land

WHAT WE LEARNED