Indigenous Relationships in the Fur Trade
This group was had the greatest trading nation in Eastern North America. Lived by the Georgian Bay. They became the "middlemen" collecting furs from their Indigenous neighbours and delivered them to the French. The alliance between the French and this group let to a 90 year war between New France and the Haudenosaunee. This group became very ill from the smallpox.
Wendat people
Clothing made of fur was a sign of these two things
wealth and power
Who were the original people that began fur trading even before the era of the Fur Trade began
The indigenous
Why did the French want to settle in Canada
wanted to make a better life for themselves but French rulers wanted to gain power and wealth by claiming lands and resources around the world
To trade for furs the French people had to have this which was given to them by the King and only given if they promised to build settlements
A license
Haudenosaunee People
Hats made from beaver fur were most popular for these three reasons.
beaver fur was soft, waterproof and long-lasting
First Nations traded furs for what European goods, Name at least 3 things
kettles, pots, scissors, fish hooks, and blankets
All of the land the the French claimed in North America (now Canada) was known as
New France
Travelling fur traders who had a license and sometimes paddled in their canoes for 16 hours a day.
voyageurs
This group lived around the Hudson Bay and James Bay. They would travel down the river to trading posts which were set up at the mouths of big rivers. They reached a treaty with each trading posts they were the middleman between the English and French and other Indigenous People. Focused on Northern part of fur trade.
Cree People
Due to overhunting there was almost no beavers left in Europe. To meet the demand for beaver fur, the French and English sent fur traders to this Country who had lots of beavers left and turned to the Indigenoous people to help them learn the land.
Canada
These two French individuals explored North of Lake Superior all the way to the Hudson Bay for beavers. They collected 300 First Nation people and 100 canoes loaded with furs however were fined as they did not have a trading license and their furs were taken away
Peirre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart des Groseilliers
Samuel de Champlain sailed North America with de Monts and formed the first settlement they called ____ and later landed on an Island they called Isle de Sainte Croix and Port Royal.
Acadia
A person who travels to foreign lands to do religious work
A missionary
The English traded with these two groups of Indigenous Peoples
Haudenosaunee and Cree
Name two types of hats made from beaver fur
The wellington and the regent
As France and England began to compete for furs in Canada, the competition changed trading relationships with the First Nations and Europeans. Trade was not a friendly exchange anymore, it became?
simply business and a way to make money
The battle between France and England for control of North America (Canada) lasted how many years
150
These people farmed the land, usually farmers and labourers from France.
Habitants
The Wendat and the Cree People completed trade with them
the French
These are the people who buy and sell goods
Merchants
European traders preferred fur that was _____________ as it was softer.
old
Champlain built a settlement along the shores of the St. Lawrence River near the First Nations village of Stadacona to continue his involvement in the fur trade. What did he call this settlement, still has this name in Canada today.
Quebec
French nobles were called___________.
The land that was granted to each of the French nobles was called a ____________.
Seigneurs, Seigneury