Chapter 2 terms and people

Viceroy

A governor or ruler exercising authority on behalf of a sovereign in a province or colony

Metis

A person of mixed French-Canadian and Native American ancestry

Mestizo

A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry

Missionary

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

Mission

A religious settlement

Northwest Passage

A water route to Asia through the cold waters of present day Canada

Presidio

Fort

Coureurs de bois

French colonists who participated the fur trade w/ the indians and lived with them for part of the year

Samuel de Champlain

French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)

Quebec

The first permanent European settlement