Have you ever wondered
what it would be like to live in an igloo?It would be pretty
cold compared to the houses we live in now. Could you imagine living with
other people in one big house? Living with that many people would be like
house with your whole class and all the teachers in your school!
The environment that we live in affects everything that we do. Canada
is a country with a lot of different environments. There are parts of
Canada where the temperature is freezing and all you can see is snow for
most of the year. There are places where it rains a lot of the time and
places where it is very dry. There are places that have mountains and
some that are flat. There are rivers, lakes and oceans. Canada has a very
In the past, First Nations were the only people living in Canada.They
are the First Nations because they were the first occupants of North America.
In Canada, each First Nation had to adapt to their environment in different
ways. The houses they built, the food they ate, and the activities they
did were all greatly affected by the environment they lived in.
Here you can look
at three different aboriginal cultures from three different parts of Canada:
the Huron, the Haida, and the Inuit. You can compare them to see how different
their ways of life were because of where they lived.