The Phases of the Fur Trade
This phase of the fur trade began with cod fishing and interaction between the Mi'Kmaq and the Europeans.
What is Phase 1?
This company was established by the British on May 2,1670 in order to compete with France in the Fur Trade.
What is the HBC?
Why did the British create the Hudson Bay Company?
What is, to directly compete with the French in the Fur Trade?
Land was owned by the British but eventually lost to Canada.
What is Rupert's Land?
The offspring of First Nation's women and French fur trading men.
What are Metis?
This Phase contained the French and Haudenosaunee War.
What is Phase 2?
This company was formed after New France became a British colony. Merchants from this company competed against the monopoly of the HBC.
What is the NWC?
What company had a monopoly over the fur trade?
What is the HBC?
How did the French-Haudenosaunee War (The Beaver Wars) come to an end?
What is the French and Haudenosaunee signed a Peace Treaty?
The relationship between these two groups began as a mutually beneficial enterprise but over time caused issues to arise from competition for furs.
What are the Europeans and the First Nations?
The Ouendat were removed as middle men during this phase.
What is Phase 2?
This food is made from dry meat, mixed with berries and fat.
What is Pemmican?
In phase 2, which two cities were essential for the fur trade?
What is Quebec and Montreal?
How did the defeat of the Ouendat in 1649 impact the fur trade?
What is the middleman were lost and the French needed to find new groups to trade with?
Men hired to make canoe trips between trading settlements to deliver furs, passengers and other trading supplies.
What are Voyageurs?
This phase of the fur trade saw a period of harsh competition that included shootings, fights and hostage takings but ended with a merger between the HBC and NWC.
What is Phase 5?
People who buy goods from a producer and sell it for a profit.
What is a Middleman?
In 1763 there was a shift in the fur trade. What was this shift?
What is there was a shift from trapping and hunting to farming and land?
What was the outcome of the rivalry between the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company?
These two European powers had frequent conflicts in fighting for control of what is present day Canada.
What is the French and the British?
New France became a British Colony in 1763 during this phase.
Middlemen that emerged when the Ouendat were eliminated.
What are the Courier de Bois?
Give a reason for the fur trade moving west.
What is.. lack of pelt supplies in the eat, Britans hunger for land, declining animal populations, battles between the french and the british etc.
What is one of the reasons that contributed to the decline of the fur trade?
Some of Alberta's oldest cities started as this.
What are Forts?