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Fur Trade General Knowledge
Definitions
100

What type of fish started the fur trade?

Cod

100

What was Britain's fur trade company called?

The Hudson Bay Company

100

The Northwest Company and the Hudson Bay company merged as one company under the name...?

Hudson Bay Company

100

How many phases of the fur trade are there?

5

100

Metis

A unique Indigenous culture born from the fur trade. The first Métis were the children of First Nations women and European fur traders. They later developed their own culture, traditions and language.

200

What was the name of the fish drying stations that the British set up?

Flakes

200

This product was eaten as a food source as the journey's became longer and food needed to keep for longer.

Pemmican

200

Prior to the companies merging, what was happening between the Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company?

Terrible fighting

200

What animal was the main supplier of fur during the fur trade?

Beaver

200

Pemmican

Food made of dried meat, dried berries and animal fat. Used during the fur trade during long trips as it lasted a long time

300

Which city became a busy shipping center?

Montreal

300

What was the area around The Hudson Bay called?

Rupert's Land

300

Which animal became over hunted and it's population declined?

Buffalo

300

List one positive impact of the fur trade.

- Europeans received furs
- Indigenous received tools
- New trade routes

300

Coureurs de bois

Fur traders who transported goods along the trade routes.

400

Which river was used heavily for trade?

St. Lawrence

400

Who started the North West Company?

Independents merchants from France

400

True or false: the demand for fur continued to rise during this phase.

False

400

List one negative of the fur trade.

- Loss of language for Indigenous
- Disease
- Animal populations decreasing

400

Monopoly

Having full control over one product in an area.

500

Which people became the middlemen between First Nations and French?

Wendat

500

Which time period was phase 4?

A. 1603- 1670
B. 1670- 1760
C. 1760 - 1821

C. 1760 - 1821

500

The Hudson Bay Company was losing it's control over the West when this group began trading with the First Nations peoples.

Americans

500

How many beaver pelts could you trade for one gun during the fur trade?

14 beavers

500

Mercantilism

An economic system that allowed an imperial country to become rich by processing the resources from a colony and selling them back as finished goods

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