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Where was the first HBC fort located in BC?
Fort Victoria
what did the saint lawrence river do economiacally?
it allowed the french people to get to canada and allowed humans to have another source of food(fish).
When was ruperts land founded
1670-1870, Two hundread years.
what is new france.
it is canada on the east coast before it was known as "canada"
Is the St. Lawrence River man made or natural?
100% natural
What was the first main profit in HBC BC?
Fish.
what did ruperts land do economically?
it allowed HBC to have farms that were protected and supported by the government.
What were Bison used for in the 1800's?
Pelican, Meat, Fur/pelt/leather, Waterbottles.
how did the HBC assist in comunication
the train moved much faster than a horse and could deliver items much faster to the people who got the letter.
what was the candian fur trade?
it was a very useful way to get supplies and stuff you need and it was running for around 250 years from the 17th to the 19th century
Where did the gold rush in canada start?
it started in Yale and went al through the cariboo all the way to barkerville.
why was the CPR helpful (politically)
it allowed things to go from east to west canada and the government built it for transportation of human letter and resources so it helped out the government with time used in process to get items they requested.
What does HBC stand for?
Hudsons Bay Company. one of the first big stores in canada.
where did acadian people come from/ what language did they speak?
france and they spoke french
where was the first ever HBC located in canada?
Toronto and it ended up growing all up hudsons bay and all the way west to the vancouver/victoria area.
when was the gold rush?
1865.
politically why was confederation helpful.
it allowed people to group up and the government had less to deal with.
what did the CPR (canadian pasific railway) do?
It was a railway that linked the west and east sides of canada that John A Macdonald built for transportation comunication and to move goods from one side of canada to another in under a week.
in canadian history bison are very important. how many bison did north america go through a day in the 1800s?
about 5000 a day. that is about 5.3 million bison a year and they were just about extinct with 2200 plains bison and 10,000 woods bison.
who lived in acadia?
it was the first name for canada and was considered "New france".
The french people.
Why did they create the cariboo road?
To provide a wagon route for the gold miners.
why did the west coast waters help politically.
the amount of fish thathad been located on the west side of canada was very helpful to the HBC and HBC had been supported by the government.
When was the canadian pasific railway built (exact date)
When did it first run
Febuary 16th 1881
The first pasenger on board left the montreal station on June 28 1886 and arrived at port moody BC on July 4th 1886. Before people were aloud on the train there were letters and materials such as pelican and furs in 1881.
who started the canadian fur trade?
jacques cartier when he was traveling through the Gulf of St. Lawrence river.
Confederation is when a group of people form an allience for the same cause. it is allowing for each member to govern itself and work together for those causes. confederation pretty much means that there are different people who dont nessesarily work togehter great but are working how they can for the same cause as someone completely different.