The Hudson's Bay Company
1670
What year was the Hudson's Bay Company formed?
Where the Northwest Company was primarily located.
What is "far away from the Hudson's Bay" or
"In the western parts of Canada."
Name the fur-bearing animal that was most commonly trapped during the fur trade.
What is the beaver?
Discussions (between at least two parties) aimed at reaching an agreement.
What are negotiations?
A man famous for exploring, joining the Northwest Company and canoeing from the St. Lawrence to Bella Coola in a canoe (with his dog and many other voyageurs).
Who is Alexander Mackenzie?
The main role of the Hudson's Bay Company.
What was to trade fur and goods with Indigenous peoples?
Where the people who founded the Northwest Company were from.
Who are Scottish businessmen who lived in Montreal?
Beavers were especially important to the fur trade because of this fashion item.
What are hats?
A belt made to mark agreements between people.
What is a Wampum Belt?
Alexander Mackenzie accomplished in 1789 what no other colonist had accomplished.
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc/mapsandroutes/maps.htm
What is "reach the Pacific Ocean overland" or "get from the St. Lawrence to Bella Coola using rivers and portaging"?
The main competitors of the Hudson's Bay Company.
What was the Northwest Company?
The main focus of the Northwest Company.
What is, to trade fur and compete with the Hudson's Bay Company?"
This happened to fur-bearing animal populations as a result of over trapping.
What is "their population decreased due to over-trapping."
True or False: Negotiations between the Crown and Aboriginal groups are called Treaties. Treaty 8, an agreement between the Crown and the indigenous people of this area, is an example.
What is "True?"
Why Mackenzie's exploration was important for the fur trade.
New routes = new source for furs. The Hudson's Bay area was over-trapped.
The Hudson's Bay Company's trading posts helped do this in Pre-Confederation Canada.
Any or all of these are acceptable:
What is establishing trade routes?
What is helping create settlements?
How the Northwest Company's practices differed from the Hudson's Bay Company's.
What is: they went TO the indigenous people to trade or they focused on more direct trading with Indigenous peoples.
What indigenous people did with fur-bearing animal hides.
Any or all of these are correct: clothing, shelter, and trade.
Colonists who transported furs by canoe were called this.
What are voyageurs?
The name of the BC river that Mackenzie followed on his journey to the Pacific.
What is the Mackenzie River?
How the Hudson's Bay Company influenced the economy of Canada.
What is, it created jobs and facilitated trade across the region.
I'll also accept the Made Beaver Tokens and answers about the first form of currency.
The thing that happened to the Northwest Company in 1821.
What is, "It merged with the HBC."
True or False: The fur trade affected the ecosystem by disrupting animal populations and habitats.
What is "True."
An agreement between two or more groups that benefits all involved.
What is an alliance?
How Alexander Mackenzie’s explorations influenced future explorers?
What is: They inspired further exploration and/or trade ventures in Canada?