Unit Plan
The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Library Exhibit: Mapping the French Empire in North America

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual exhibit containing documents illustrating the historic French presence in the Americas.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Company of One Hundred Associates

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines what the Company of One Hundred was and what they aimed to accomplish in the New World with the fur trade and colonization.
Website
Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: The Seven Years' War

For Students 5th - 8th
This website gives a brief account of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) up to the Fall of Quebec.
Website
Other

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Pommier

For Students 9th - 10th
Online article describing the life of Hugues Pommier who was a priest, missionary, painter, and portraitist. He spent much of his life in New France serving parishes and painting religious art.
Lesson Plan
Other

Lesson Plans: New France

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Offers a lesson plan that helps young scholars understand the lives and hardships of Coureurs de bois.
Website
Other

Athabasca University: Centre for Language and Literature: The Jesuit Relations

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about The Jesuit Relations, early documents (seventeenth century) that chronicle the Jesuit missions to New France.