Wednesday, May 6, 2009

After Port Royal - Champlain Continues~

Questions(Please use complete sentences for full marks)

1. Find a map of the St. Lawrence River. Explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 setnences.

The St. Lawrence River is from the Kingston to the pass of the Matane. The upper river is from the Kingston to the Cornwall. The lower river is from the Cornwall to the Trois Rivieres. The St. Lawrence River is near the Quebec. The general direction is down to up.










2. Find a photograph of the St. Lawrence River you like. Explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 sentences.
The St. Lawrence River is not only near the land, but also have a island at the center of the river, it is under the blue sky , it's quiet, not much storm. People loves this view, it makes them feel relax and comfortable, they have so much their innermost thoughts and feelings want to tell the river.There is also have a towering in the river. I like it because it's looks peaceful~
3. Why did Champlain choose to use a river for transportation? Explain in 3-5 sentences.
If you look at the map of the the St. Lawrence River, you will find that it is along the land, at the edge of the Quebec. River is very useful for him. He can go anywhere that he wants. He can't use the transportation for the land, because it is not convenient if he wants to cross the river to the other side of the land that decollated by the river, for this reason, if he use car or houses, he should changes to use ships. Therefore, a river for transpotation is better.



4. Find a picture of Champlain's habitation at Quebec. Explain what you see in 5-8 sentences.


This is a picture of Champlain's habitation at Quebec. Although it's just have black painted showed on the yellow paper, it's looks grate and gives me the feel of powerful. Here is really big, there is the place for check what's going on outside, two flours of the building, the flat is the best symbol for Champlain. He is very clever, there is a moat around his habitation, which is might used to make the attrack from enemies are getting slower, in this way, they can against enemies faster.



5. The fort was a natural fort because Quebec had towering cliffs.

a.Find a picture of towering cliffs in Quebec. Search in Google using "quebec and towering cliffs".

http://z.about.com/d/gocanada/1/0/N/5/-/-/Gros_Morne.jpg

http://images.google.cn/imglanding?imgurl=http://www.canada-photos.com/data/media/11/cape-chignecto-provincial-park_385.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.canada-photos.com/cape-chignecto-provincial-park-nova-scotia-385-pictures.htm&usg=__BYXrsdiUPr9aD62qpfqspvlb4JU%3D&h=312&w=468&sz=42&hl=zh-CN&tbnid=u5_2VQVLia3ALM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquebec%2Band%2Btowering%2Bcliffs%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dzh-CN%26sa%3DG&q=quebec+and+towering+cliffs&gbv=2&sa=G&start=0#start=3


http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/152/white-cliffs-beach_16244.jpg

b. Why are the cliffs a natural fort important? Explain in 3-5 sentences.

Look at the picture up front this question, as the first picture, if here have something happen, like people fight to each other, people won't get any hugh hurt, the only thing that will happen is the cliffs is bombed by human, so that's the reason why it is very useful. As the picture three, if there have any people that comes from other countries who is going to have a war with the people lived on the cliffs, people down attrack up, up people can save their life! Amazing !

2. Can you find a picture of a moat? Post it.

http://www.sinc-ic.org/graphics/moat.jpg








Sunday, May 3, 2009

Samuel De Champlain - Port Royal

Samuel De Champlain at Port Royal in Nova Scotia

1. Why would Samuel De Champlain want to have a monopoly on the fur trade? Explain in 3-5 sentences. What does monopoly mean?

Monopoly means that something that controlled by the person who did it, this kind of person want to make everything grasped by them. Just like Samuel De Champlain. Fur is the good product for the trade between America and France. Samuel is very clever, he knew that fur is very expensive. He also knew fur can make him from a poor guy to become a rich, successful business man. He will get a good honour on the fur trade business.

2. Why would the King want to set up French colonies in Canada? Explain in 3-5 sentences.Champlain first attempted to create a small trading post called "Port Royal" in what is now Nova Scotia. It was not a great success because there was no business and the settlement was abandoned by 1607.

The king is the the centre personage of one country. If he said go left, no one have the bravery the go right. Each country have one king, but do you think they can be the king? What is the special properties do they have? It must be the power! Just like the citizens, they wanna their country the strongest in the world, they wanna people respect to them, they wanna enjoy the glory. What do they depend on? Their countries! The king want to set up French colonies in Canada because the more land he has, his country will be more famous, therefore he will be very famous as well. This land can also used to do lots of things as well. Anyway, the king 's behaviour can make his country develop.

3. Can you find two pictures of Port Royal, Nova Scotia today on the Internet? What does it look like? Explain each picture in 5-8 sentences what you see.When the settlement was abandoned in 1607, some settlers were permitted to stay if they agreed not to work on the fur trade. They became highly skilled farmers and would form the colony of Acadia (as we have learned before).

http://www.gribblenation.com/papics/keystone/port_royal.jpg

This picture is very individual, because the house is not normal. It's made by brick, An very old house, and it's also seriously incline toward left. The left side of the corner sank into the footstep, it's covered by sandy soil. There is "ROY.ART.STORE" on the top of the house, this is a symbol for this house, visitors know that a long time ago this is a store maybe about art. Built in 1888 by V.R, means Victoria Regina, the queen of the Victoria. It's seems to be disappear, because it started to subside, so people use two sticks to support it still can stand there, and this place is not prosperous any more.

http://images.travelpod.com/users/kris/nostophobia.1194716820.giddy-housex-port-royal-1.jpg

I chose two different styles for the pictures of Port Royal, one is historical remains picture, the other is the picture nowadays. Here is totally different from the first picture that i explained. It's very beautiful and cool. I imagine that in the past, here is the deliver harbour. All of the products were receive at here. This is a place for making people more healthy and happy, let them feel comfortable. If i live in here, I'll have good emotion everyday.


http://www.naplesfineliving.com/uploads/00000017623/PortRoyal_pool_canal_view.jpg

Bonus1. Find 2 pictures of Nova Scotia you like. Explain why you like each of these pictures in 3-5 sentences.

1.

I love the place that have both mountains and water. Here has fresh air also covered grasses all of the hillside, grew up lots of trees. People do exercises in here, as the picture, they do riding bikes, Climbing mountains. We walk beside the edge of the sea , enjoy appreciating the view. At free time, we can also have a picnic on the grasses in this place, feeling the wind comes from the sea, smelling the sea flavor.




http://www.atlanticcanadacycling.com/p/trail3.jpg

2.

Living in here is my dream! My favorite view is like this, have two or three not much big houses, apex style. Inside of it is my room, decorated very cute. I cook outside, enjoy the view of the water and the mountains.






http://skyvillage.com/paulwicks/mini/NovaScotia1.jpg

This is HORRIBLE!!!