Assignment No.4

This exercise will examine material we have talked about a little in Chapter 4. Again, do not feel frustrated if some links have changed or some pages have been updated. Thus is the world of the internet. As always, you may use the ESCAL lab in the Herty Building, the library, or wherever you can get access.

GO TO NETSCAPE. Click on OPEN. Type in http://www.cyber-north.com/canada/history.html
Be careful; this might take a minute to load. Click on OPEN to begin.

1. According to this site, in 1497, who did some 'rediscovering'?
2. Where else did he explore?
3. What industry grew southeast of Newfoundland and East of Nova Scotia?
4. When and where was France's first permanent Canadian colony?
5. Who founded it?
Click on OPEN and type http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature2.htm
Click on OPEN to continue. Click on #6 when the page loads.
6. What is site #6?
7. Where is it located and when and who founded it?
8. What did the founder do here?
Click on OPEN and carefully type http://bachman.ecology.uga.edu/~dstewart/personal/genweb/stewart/pei.htm
9. Who settled Prince Edward Island and when were they expelled?
10. What year did Britain claim Prince Edward Island?
Click on OPEN. Type http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html
Click on #21.
11. What is it and what does it look like to you?
Click on BACK. Click on #26.
12. Describe what you see. Print a copy to hand in. How accurate do you think this map is and what does this say about map makers of this time period?
EXIT NETSCAPE.

So. What did you think of this one? Please send all answers, questions, comments, suggestions, etc. to dangood@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu