Definitions
Impacts of the Fur Trade
The British Fur Trade
The French Fur Trade
Wild Questions!
100
What is the Barter System?
Trading for goods and services without using money.
100
What could First Nations people trade furs for at Fort Whoop Up?
Whiskey.
100
What was the British fur trading company called?
Hudson's Bay Company.
100

These European settlers played a major role in the early North American fur trade and often formed alliances with Indigenous peoples.

French people

100

The fur trade helped European settlers explore and map much of what is now this country.

Canada

200
Who were the Nor'Westers?
Employees of the Northwest Company
200
What impacts did the decreasing beaver population have on First Nations groups?
They had to move from their traditional territories and ended up in conflicts with teach other over land.
200
Why was Hudson Bay a good location for fur trading factories?
It had rivers flowing to it-easy transportation for First Nations. It was on a big bay-easy shipping back to England. It was in the north-furs were thick and abundant.
200

Who employed the voyageurs to travel west to expand trade further? 

North West Company

200
What eventually happened to the Northwest Company?
It merged with HBC and was then called HBC.
300
What is a Voyageur?
A fur trader with the Northwest Company. They were like coureur de bois in the French Fur Trade (adventurous men who met First Nations to trade goods for furs).
300
Why did French and English being used as the main language of the Fur Trade negatively impact the First Nations?
It caused the First Nations to begin to lose their languages.
300

This animal's fur was highly valued in Europe and drove the Canadian fur trade.

The Beaver

300
What was the treaty between the First Nations groups and French called?
The Great Peace of Montreal.
300
What is sometimes called the "greatest disaster" of the Fur Trade?
2/3 of First Nations dying of European diseases.
400
What was the Northwest Company?
A company formed by merchants in Montreal who used to work with the French Fur trade. The NWC competed with the HBC.
400
What happened to the Buffalo?
They were over-hunted.
400

Indigenous peoples played this important role in the British fur trade.

What is supplying furs and acting as trading partners (or guides and interpreters)

400
What were the terms of The Great Peace of Montreal?
New France would not attack Haudenosaunee villages. The First Nations would not attack the French or each other. Trappers and traders could travel safely.
400

What was the name of one of the first British European explorers who discovered cod fish on the East Coast?

John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)

500
What was the invisible enemy in the fur trade?
Diseases like influenza (the flu), smallpox, measles, etc.
500

First Nations who were involved in the Fur Trade began to _________ only goods that Europeans could provide.

Rely.

500

The Hudson's Bay Company operated under a royal charter granting control over a vast region known by this name.

Ruperts Land

500
What form of transportation did most Coureur de Bois use.
Rivers on Canoes!
500
Who are the Metis?
Children of First Nations women and fur traders (usually French, Scottish or English).
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