Early Explorers
People that came to Canada in the hopes of making this their home were called what?
What are settlers?
What fur was mainly traded in Canada's fur trade?
What is beaver fur/ beaver pelt?
French and English traders traded what with Indigenous people in exchange for furs?
European Goods
Licensed French traders were called what?
Voyageurs
Who is the explorer credited with finding and naming Canada?
Who is Jacques Cartier?
What were the two main fur trading companies in Canada?
Hudsons Bay Company and the North west Company
What group of peoples was created through marriages between French settlers and Indigenous peoples?
Metis Peoples
The land around the Hudson's Bay area was known as what?
Ruperts Land
In what year did Jacques Cartier first come to Canada
1534
Which Company was founded first?
What is the Hudsons Bay Company
Indigenous people became exposed to what through European contact?
Deadly disease's
Coureir Des Bois or unlicensed french fur traders are called what?
Runners of the Woods
What explorer founded what is now Quebec? What did he call this land and in what year was it founded?
Samuel de Champlain found New France in 1608
Why did the two fur trade companies compete with each other?
To gain control over the fur trade and increase their profits
What role did Indigenous people play in the fur trade?
Indigenous people were guides and trappers for European fur traders.
To join together and the Hudsons Bay Company and the North West Company
What was Jacques Cartiers goal when he first went exploring?
To find passage to Asia
How did the fur trade impact canada?
It caused European people to come over and settle the land and created an economic shift.
What happened to traditional Indigenous lands in Canada through European settlement?
Lands were taken from Indigenous people and colonized.
What company came out of the fur trade and still exists in Canada?
Hudsons Bay Company