Who were these Operations?
What year Was the HBC founded?
1670
What are traditional livelihoods?
The fur trade took away these from many Indigenous peoples.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
The biggest fur trading empire changing North America forever. And making them have a big legacy.
What indigenous partners did the HBC have?
Metis and Native Americans.
What are European diseases?
European traders brought these, which devastated Indigenous communities.
What is Rupert's Land?
A massive historical territory in british North America. Which covered 40% of modern Canada.
Who Founded the HBC?
King Charles ll
What are Indigenous languages and customs?
French traders had to learn these to succeed in the fur trade.
How did the HBC gain such a massive monopoly on fur trading?
They owned rupert's land which gave them 40% of Canada making them hold a monopoly on fur trading.
What did the HBC do?
they were the biggest fur trading monopoly
What is wilderness survival?
British traders had to learn this skill after moving inland.
What is cultural integration?
This process describes learning and adopting another group’s language and customs.
How did the HBC revolutionize North American fur trade?
By shifting the focus from complex overland river routes to direct coastal maritime trading
Who invented rootbeer
Charles Elmer Hires invented Root beer