the news of the pemmican prolamation and the pemmican wars

In today’s news we are going to be talking about the pemmican proclamation and the pemmican wars. In the pemmican proclamation the metis were the main suppliers of the pemmican for the NWC. It was also the main economic resource then the Selkirk settlers were still trying to adjusting the “NEW WORLD” that they were living in. They had really poor crops and food shortage to. Governor of the Selkirk colony Miles MacDonnell made an order that they were banning the export of any food from the red river valley this included the metis pemmican this really hurt the metis trade and the NWC traders to but this was order to design to ensure that the Selkirk settlers had food. This somewhat caused a war and this is how we got the Pemmican wars. The metis blamed the settlers that caused fighting between the two groups the fur trader's started to attack the pemmican stores for the metis. Everything like the equipment, horses and the crops were destroyed and the settlers were threatened in the end.

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war of 1812

 today in history class we learnt about the war of 1812. by reenacting the battles in class  Isaac brock was the leader of the defense of upper Canada. there was also Tecum seh he was the leader of the Shawnee people he allied with the British  in the war of 1812 there were many battles such as fort Detroit, queenston heights, York, Lundy's lane and the battle of Washington. the British won the battle of fort Detroit and queenston heights the Americans won the battle of York but the battle of Lundy's lane was uncertain who won because so many people died the battle of Washington was the last battle and the British one they signed a treaty call the treaty of Ghent in 1814 it ended the war between the British and American's  but they were still at war with the French. Veterans of the War of 1812.L. to r. - Col. Duggan, Rev. Geo. Ryerson, Wm. Roe, Jacob Snider, Dr. Jas. H. Richardson, Jos. Dennis, J. Woodall, Jas. ross, Col. Bridgford, Geo. Ridout. Photo taken Oct. 23rd, 1861. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-of-1812/

Major General Isaac Brock

This month's highlight in our Grade 11 history class, was our War of 1812 reenactment. This is the war that happened in the year of 1812 between the British (who also teamed up with the First nations) and the Yankees. Major General Isaac Brock was one of the main people involved in the British side of the war of 1812. He was a big part of the military, and the administer of upper "Canada" (what is now known as Ontario).  Isaac Brock was not the most levelheaded, polite person out there, he was recognized as an angry man who acted on those feelings of hatred. The passion in his anger may be what lead the British to the victory of the war.


At the start of the war, Isaac lead troops in to take over the American Fort Michilimackinac. To prepare for his next attack, Brock met with Tecumseh (the First Nations leader/representative) and made a deal to become allies. During the night of August 15, 1812 Tecumseh lead his army across the Detroit river, later being followed by Brock and his forces. Isaac wanted to lure them into the open to make them more vulnerable, but later Tecumseh got his men to make native calls really loud to make it sound like there were a lot more of them than there actually were. The Americans surrendered almost immediately. This led to the win for Brock in the Battle of Detroit. With the win came with an American fort, territory now known as Michigan, and a bunch of war supplies.


The Yankee army next invaded Queenston Heights on October 13, 1812. They took the gun battery, and Brock decided on a direct attack a.s.a.p., not thinking to wait for backup. During the Attack Brock was hit in the chest, killing him instantly. The Battle of Queenston Heights was the Major General's last fight.


War of 1812. (2011) Uploaded by RCGS/HDI/Parks Canada. Available online at: http://www.eighteentwelve.ca/?q=eng/Topic/16




Isaac Brock. (2016) Uploaded by Wikipedia. Available online at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Brock  

Check out this video on the Canadian side of the war of 1812: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QET4x2CzDOQ



John Davis

John Davis Born about 1550, died 1605. John Davis was a great explorer, had great skill in navigation with patience and careful work. He invented the Davis quadrant Davis invented the backstaff in 1595.  he went farther north than any explorer had gone before and mapped huge areas. This made it possible for later explores to go further. He lead several voyagers to discover the northwest passages and served as a pilot and caption on both Dutch and English vogues to the indies. David's life as a sailor and explore was dedicated to the service oh hid country and the science navigation in the best tradition Elizabethan seamanship. Davis seems to have commended the black dog against the Spanish armada and sailed with Thomas Cavendish on his last voyage in 1519, He also sailed with sir Walter Raleigh to Cádiz and to the azores. Davis had technical four voyages  First voyage Sunshine and moonshine. Second voyage sunshine moonshine, mermayde, and north starre. Third voyage Ellen, sunshine, and Elizabeth, His last ship was tiger. Davis had three ships named Ellen, sunshine and Elizabeth. two for fishing and one for exploring. He died on December 29, 1605 in a battle with Japanese pirates.




The connection with John Davis that we discussed in class are that he sailed three times to try and find the northwest passage. Although he failed to try and find it he went further north then any explorer had gone before and mapped huge areas. He also invented the Davis Quadrant, a tool used for measuring the position of the ship on the earth. We discussed that Davis invented the backstaff in 1995, a navigational tool to measure latitude, They would turn their backs to the sun and measure its shadows instead of having to look straight into the sun. Davis failed a lot trying to explore but it never stopped him, he failed 3 times trying to explore the Northwest Passage. What makes him a good explorer is that he is patient with his navigation and careful with his work. On his third voyage, Davis had three ships Ellen, sunshine and Elizabeth, His two ships sunshine and Elizabeth were only for fishing. He explored both sides of the Davis strait in Ellen and went as far north as 73 degrees north. First voyage Sunshine and moonshine. Second voyage sunshine moonshine, mermayde, and north starre. Third voyage Ellen, sunshine, and Elizabeth, His last ship was tiger.


This reminds me of  finding nemo, nemo and John Davis have similar things, in the movie finding nemo is all about adventure and exploring, nemo gets lost a lot as such Davis fails to explore places. Finding nemo is a good choice for this because I feel it relates to john Davis. finding nemo is all about trying find him and they explore the whole sea looking for that one thing which is nemo, they fail sometimes but in the end they end up finding him. John Davis explores the sea trying to find the northwest passage. He fails such as in finding nemo they fail a lot trying to find nemo.

Western Explorers

Jacques Cartier was a French Explorer of Breton who originally claimed what is now Canada for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of Saint Lawrence River.  Cartier set sail under a commission from the king, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of Asia. In the words of the commission, he was to discover certain islands and lands where it is said that a great quantity of gold and other precious things are to be found. Jacques Cartier went to Canada three times, in 1534, 1535 and 1541. He is credited with being the first European discoverer of the St. Lawrence River and the first European to make a map of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. He gave Canada its name, after he mistook the Mohawk word for village Kanata as the name of the whole land. Jacques Cartier was born in the area of St. Malo, in 1491. he got married in the 1520, but had no children with his wife. We have watched plenty other videos in class about the famous Western Explorers. we also watched the John A Macdonald movie on how the Royal Proclamation works with Jacques Cartier.


The connections that I have for the Western French explorer, Jacques Cartier and the points we have discussed in class are, I think in my own opinion that he is very brave and a unique explorer he traveled around Canada and discovered Canada in plenty of different provinces and city's. he lead three expeditions which is now Canada, he claimed all these lands that he has discovered for France. he was the one who named the original claim in France for North America.

In my own Opinion I think that he is related to or has connections with Samuel de Champlain another famous Explorer who discovered New France, Quebec city. When Jacques Cartier arrived in 1535, the site was called Stadacona by the Iroquois who lived there. When Champlain arrived it was Quebec, the Algonquin and Abenaki word for the narrow channel of the St. Lawrence, "the place where the river narrows". they both explored Canada and are very great explorers both are brave, and they both have explored Canada if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have the name Canada. Both Samuel de Champlain and Jacques Cartier were both leaders of there team, there peoples.
for and example that I know of the Movie Pirates of the Caribbean, is a great reference to this topic, in that movie they all travel the world to fight for eachothers land and all discover the same places. they all have leaders of the group and tribe.