First Nations
Metal pots, knives, guns, traps, medicine and copper wire are all examples.
What are goods?
The area that was controlled by the Hudson Bay Company.
What is Rupert's Land?
This is someone who canoes up rivers to reach First Nations.
Who are "voyageurs"?
They were known as the "highways" of the fur trade that traders canoed on.
How were rivers and other waterways used?
A system of trade where money is not used, but instead goods are traded for other goods.
What is bartering?
Smallpox, measles, and whooping cough are all examples.
What are the diseases that Indigenous people suffered from?
The main goal of English fur traders.
What is making money?
These are the runners of the woods.
Who are the "Courier des Bois"?
They were the primary product made from beaver pelts.
Felt hats.
A fur trading company that was based out of Montreal.
What is the North-West Company?
Preparing furs, working in forts, working on the road, and teaching languages and geography skills are all examples.
What are jobs that First Nations women did in the fur trade?
This was the model of business of the HBC.
Why did First Nations have to trade furs at HBC forts?
Workers were primarily made up of the Metis and Canadiens.
Who worked for the North-West Company?
An example of a whiskey trading post.
What is Fort Whoop-Up?
A unique Indigenous nation that was born out of fur traders and Indigenous women.
Who are the Metis?
A period of about 50 years of peace between First Nations and the French.
What is the Great Peace of Montreal?
The Hudson Bay Company is an example of this key term.
What is a monopoly?
The Nor'Westers who lived in the west of Canada.
Who are the "inlanders"?
Competition, violence, and relationships weakened.
What happened when the fur trade moved west?
An annual meeting where fur traders, company workers, and First Nation met to exchange goods.
What is a rendezvous?
Loss of language, exposure to disease, dependence on European goods, the killing of buffalo and loss of tradition are all examples.
What are ways that First Nations identity changed?
The most signficant fur trading post in Alberta.
What is Fort Edmonton?
The war that ended French participation of the fur trade.
What was the "7 Years War"?
Tokens that were given to First Nations traders if there were no goods left to trade.
What are "made beaver" tokens?
A worldview where a person sees everything through the perspective of their own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?