Jeopardy Questions...

The categories are the Fur Trade, Native People, Missionaries,
the Graveyard and Settlement Era.

From whom did the Hudson's Bay company have competition from at Victoria Settlement? (Independant fur traders. By the time Ft Victoria was established the NorthWest Company had amalgamated with the HBC.)

The HBC Post at Victoria Settlement was closed how many times? (twice. It was closed in 1883 and reopened in 1887.)

The wall built around the HBC post is known as a....? (Palisade)

One of the purposes of HBC post at Victoria was to purchase meat which could be made into....? (pemmican)

The Clerk's would have to bring most of their own furniture to the post but what piece of furniture was provided by the HB Company? (the stoves)

 

Name 1 of the 2 great peace-making chiefs known at Victoria Settlement? (Maskepetoon and/or Pakan)

A rogun is a small basket made out of what wood? (birch bark)

True or false: setting up the tipi was the responsibility of the men? (false. It was the women's job.)

What plant was dried and then burnt in religious ceremonies? (sweetgrass)

When the McDougalls arrived at Victoria Settlement which two native groups were fighting in the area? (The Blackfoot and Cree)

True or false: the natives disliked bright colored things. (False. The natives like bright colored clothing and beads.)

 

George McDougall brought one of his sons with him when he first came to Victoria Settlement. What was the name of that son? (John McDougall)

During the first winter at Victoria Settlement what did the McDougalls live in? (a buffalo skin lodge)

After the McDougalls built their eight room mission house what did they use their small cabin for? (a school)

How often did either George or John have to go to get supplies? (once a year)

What missionary stayed with John McDougall to help build the mission that first while? (Rev. Woolsey)

Which native group did the McDougalls work with most? (the Cree)

 

What deadly disease killed 3 members of the McDougall family in 1870?   (smallpox.)

Whose grave is the smallest?   (Anna McDougall's, the adopted daughter.)

Who was 11 years old when she died of smallpox? (Flora McDougall)

Of the graves in the McDougall graveyard, which doesn't belong there?   (Frank Alfred Kennedy's.... his grave is north of the mission site but the headstone was found abandoned and moved to be with the others.)

What was George McDougall's theory for preventing the spread of smallpox? (Isolation. When smallpox hit the mission George he kept the mission quarantined.)

Whose grave has a spelling error on it? (Abigail's gravestone does. Her name is spelled Abiggil on it.)

Settlement Era:

Why did Victoria Settlement change its name? (So its mail wouldn't be confused with the other Victoria)

How is land divided up within the settlement? (in river lots so everyone gets a piece of the river)

What was the name of the doctor who pushed to have the hospital built?  (Dr. Lawford)

How did the people cross the river? (the ferry)

Before TV and telephone how would news travel? (by word of mouth, telegraph or mail)

What major method of transportation came to Smoky Lake and not Victoria Settlement? (the railway)

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