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Moose Deer Point First Nation, Grade 3

Big Ideas
CURRICULUM
CONNECTIONS The natural features of the environment influence land use and the
type of employment that is available in a region.
The Ontario Curriculum (2018)
Social Studies Grades 1 to 6,
History and Geography Grades Framing Questions
7 and 8 • Looking at communities, what is needed to make communities?

Overall Expectations: B. People • What do communities have?
and Environments: Living and • What do people in communities need?
Working in Ontario

B1. demonstrate an
understanding of some key Background Information
aspects of the interrelationship
Moose Deer Point First Nation Resource Book:
between the natural
environment, land use,
Moose Deer Point First Nation is located on the eastern shore of
employment opportunities, and
Georgian Bay, adjacent to the O’Donnell Point Nature Reserve.
the development of municipal
The closest elementary school is in MacTier, a 30-minute bus ride
regions in Ontario
away. The high school is a 50-minute bus ride away, in Parry Sound.
B2. use the social studies
As of 2020, there are approximately 200 residents living in 75
inquiry process to investigate
homes. Services include a government services office (band office),
some of the environmental
effects of different types of community centre, recreation centre, firehall, Binoojii House
land and/ or resource use in (daycare), full gospel church, and a water treatment plant. Moose
Ontario municipal regions, as Deer Point Marina was opened in 1969 by Jean Chrétien and was
well as some of the measures
the first First Nations-owned and operated marina in Canada.
taken to reduce the negative
Today it is one of the largest marinas on Georgian Bay. There are
impact of that use
also a number of private marinas owned by community members.
B3. describe major landform
Niigon Technologies (Niigon means “for the future”) is a state-of-
regions and types of land use in
the-art manufacturing plant that was built in 2001.
Ontario and some of the ways
in which land use in various Our community has a rich history. In the mid-1800s, the
Ontario municipalities addresses
Pottawatomi had been forced out of the United States; they
human needs and wants,
settled in the Georgian Bay area. Many married Ojibwe members
including the need for jobs
from surrounding First Nations, such as Wasauksing, Beausoleil,
Specific Expectations:
and Rama. Moose Deer Point First Nation was officially established
B1.1 describe some major
as a Reserve in 1917, on three separate parcels of land totaling
connections between features
only 619 acres. The original families lived around King Bay and
of the natural environment of a
region and the type of land use Isaac Bay, with Gordon Bay becoming the “downtown.” Early
and/or the type of community families farmed around their homes, and worked for cottagers
that is established in that region

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