Native Subsistence at European Contact, Ethnohistoric Data


Units

Area units:
Areas shown are coloured according to dominant subsistence activities.

Data units:
Within subsistence areas, subdivisions are shown with labels indicating major food sources.


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Legend Description

Dominant subsistence activities
Colours represent generalized areas of dominant subsistence activities: fishing, hunting, gathering, agriculture and combinations. Combinations used mixtures of colours of individual activities.

Major food sources
Letter labels represent four dominant subsistence activities by colour (eg. Hunting: red) and major food sources within each of these activites by letter (eg B: Bison.) Upper case letters show dominant food source and lower case secondary sources (eg. an area labelled B c would have hunting as its dominant activity, with Bison as the main food souce and caribou as the secondary food source.


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Layers

Checkbox controls the visibility of the subsistence activities layer. Click on the label icon to turn off or on the labels for major food sources.
This layer shows modern geography (current provincial and territorial boundaries, as well as selected cities), and is available for reference.

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Active Tools

Active layer: Subsistence activities is always the active layer. This is the active layer. Use the tools below to get data about the areas in this layer.

Identify: Click on the Identify tool, then click on the map on one of the areas, to pop up a box showing the dominant subsistence activity.

Table: Click on the Table tool, then click or drag a rectangle on the map across one or more area , to select areas and pop up a table showing information about them. See Table Fields below.

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Table Fields - Subsistence activities

Dominant activities Dominant activities for area with major food sources in parentheses.
Secondary activities Secondary activities for area with major food sources in parentheses.
Data files available: No data file available for this map.

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Legend Notes

These maps are based on secondary sources with extensive adjustments according to earliest European observations.

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