HIS395H5 Lecture Notes - Lake Ontario, Woodland Period, Newfoundland And Labrador
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Pre-history (~1600)l aboriginal period: b/c no written records, european contact before 1600 but not with great lake, 1600-1763: french period. Montreal fur trade was dominant and touched lake ontario. New france conquered by british at this point. Territory where toronto will be was under british. Sources that are used to present this info aren"t written sources but artifacts. Prob: can"t be verified (i. e. how world founded: christians genesis which most don"t believe), not factual. 10 000 bc humans in toronto area. 8000 bc more advanced culture appears (archaic period) Start of more sophisticated (tools, dugout canoes etc. ) If have tool, need tool to make tool, design it etc. advanced thinking. Manufacturing pottery (fire, burning clay at certain temp. etc) Larger number of people (inferred from bones, food refuge) Maize => known as indian corn instead of wheat, great other crops like beans, squash. Villages being settled, people making decisions, society being formed. People who lived this woodland period were iroquoian.