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Who started/founded the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670?
King Charles II in 1670
True or False: Voyageurs had an easy time travelling across present-day Canada
False.
Who are the Metis?
Children of First Nations women and fur traders (usually French, Scottish or English).
How many km did traders have to travel in their canoes in order to trade furs?
3000km.
What are the steps of long division in correct order?
Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring down, Repeat
Answer both questions: What does Portage mean? What language is this word from?
The word portage is a French word that comes from the verb porter, which means “to carry.”
To portage is to carry a canoe and supplies over land.
What were the First Nations interested in from the Europeans?
a. metal items and cloth.
b. beaver pelts, mink, and fox furs
c. fashionable hats
a. metal items and cloth.
Name one thing the First Nations people were very skilled at in the Fur Trade.
They were skilled at trapping the animals and would collect furs in winter when the coats were thickest and keep them until the Europeans arrived to do their trading in the spring.
Who are the Francophones?
Francophones are people whose first and main language is French.
What eventually happened to the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company?
They merged together to become one company.
What is a Voyageur?
Voyageurs travelled by canoe, working for the fur trading companies.
They are boatman employed by the fur companies in transporting goods and passengers to and from trading posts.
List one advantage of using the river to travel and one disadvantage.
If you were moving in the direction of the river’s flow, the current would help to carry you along.
If you were going the opposite way, it was hard work.
What was the name of the food that the Metis peoples made to help traders during long journey's?
Pemmican.
True or False: Frank and Joseph Lamoureux settled on prairie lands.
False. Frank and Joseph Lamoureux settled on the north side of the North Saskatchewan River.
Who was one of the first groups to populate the region of Alberta?
The French.
What companies were rivals during the Fur Trade?
The Hudson's Bay Company and The Northwest Company.
Why did the Fur Trade lose popularity over the 1900's?
Fur hats became out of style.
People began to feel bad for what was happening to the animals.
Name 2 ways that an Indigenous/Metis Sash was used throughout the Fur Trade
backpack, scarf, a washcloth or towel, a saddle blanket, or a rope
Name one cool fact about the Lamoureux brothers.
The brothers brought family members and friends to their area.
The brothers farmed and raised cattle, but they also had several other businesses. Joseph was the local dentist.
The community became known as Lamoureux and it still exists today
The character Sebastian appears in which Disney film
The Little Mermaid
Name 3 things that the HBC trading posts sold/traded
guns, metal pots, utensils, beads, cloth, beaver furs
Weapons,Gunpowder,Bullets,Beads,Fish hooks,Axes,sewing needles,Scissors,cooking pots,wool blankets.
Where did Samuel de Champlain build the first European trading post?
Quebec City
How did The Metis people help exchanges made between Europeans and the First Nations people?
Métis people could translate for European traders when they met with First Nations traders. Some Métis also paddled and piloted the boats carrying furs and trade goods along the rivers of the West.
Name a town in Alberta that has a French name.
Grande Prairie, Lacombe, Lac La Biche, and Morinville
Finish the lyrics: "I've been staring at the edge of the water...."
"'Long as I can remember
Never really knowing why"