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Indigenous people that collected animal furs.
What are trappers?
A disease that killed several million indigenous people.
What is smallpox?
People of mixed First Nations and European ancestry.
What are Metis?
Europeans taught the First Nations how to grow this hardy crop?
What is wheat?
The oldest business in Canada.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
These people spoke many languages and could translate between groups.
What are interpreters?
Places where different groups could exchange furs and goods.
What are trading posts?
First Nations taught the Europeans how to plant these three crops. Name two.
What are corn, potatoes and wild rice?
A company started in Montreal that hired Francophone voyageurs.
What is the Northwest Company?
Worn by the Metis as a symbol of their culture. Used for many things including a scarf, backpack and rope.
What is a sash?
Europeans that worked in and ran trading posts.
Who are traders?
First Nations people taught the Europeans how to get this sweat treat from giant trees.
What is maple syrup?
Footwear made from animal fur and worn by First Nations.
What are moccasins?
Negotiating to get a better deal while trading.
What is bartering?
A person hired by a fur-trading company to trade with the First Nations. They were master canoers.
What is a voyageur?
Europeans were very impressed with these light crafts used by the First Nations that were used to navigate the rivers.
What are canoes?
Included all the land that had rivers flowing into Hudson Bay. Only the HBC could trade in this area.
What is Rupert's Land?
A language that was mixed of English and Cree.
What is Michif?
To carry your canoe over unpassable water.
What is portage?
Europeans traded these items to the First Nations which changed the ways they hunted and fought.
What are guns, or firearms?