Phase 1
In this, "winning" means controlling more wealth than others.
What is economic competition?
What is a "middleman"?
This company was founded in 1670 during phase 3 of the fur trade. It controlled the fur trade in Rupert's Land
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
This new company was formed in 1779, during phase 4 of the fur trade and had fierce competition over the fur trade against another big company.
What is the North West Company?
These two large companies would merge together to form a unified company and end their fierce competition and conflict over the fur trade.
Who are the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company?
This small animal's fur and skin would be woven into fashionable clothes and hats that the Europeans had high demand for. The First Nations Peoples of Canada would hunt and trap them to trade with the Europeans.
What is a beaver/sea otter?
This European country dominated the fur trade during these early phases of the fur trade.
What is France?
They were hired by the French and the British to make long journeys to the west to trade with the First Nation Peoples there.
Who were the voyageurs?
This high calorie, long lasting, super food, made out of dried meats, were used by voyageurs during their long journeys to trade in the West. It was supplied by First Nations and Metis peoples.
What is Pemmican?
This large animal was almost hunted into extinction during the fur trade, but due to conservation efforts, they have been brought back from the brink of extinction, though still remain endangered.
What are buffalo/bison?
These are the valuable items and good that the Europeans would trade to the First Nations Peoples of Canada during the fur trade.
What are iron goods, pots, guns, glass beads? (Any of these is correct)
Some only converted to maintain a good trading relationship with the Europeans. Some only practiced in front of the Europeans.
What were the Indigenous Peoples' responses to the Catholic Missionaries?
This European country encouraged cross-cultural marriages with the Indigenous peoples to make direct contact and partnership with them.
What is France?
The tasks and jobs of these people were doctoring the sick, skinning and weaving furs, making moccasins, and cooking, which are very important roles.
Who were the Métis women?/What were the Métis women's tasks and jobs?
The events of the fur trade was the early foundation of this country's economy and would eventually lead to its formation and independence from Britain and France.
What is Canada?
True or False? Most historians believe that the early fur trade benefited both Europeans and First Nations.
What is true? (Or just true)
This is the Indigenous group of people that were allied to first the Dutch and then the British in this phase of the fur trade.
Who were the Haudenosaunee?
The Cree, Nakoda, and Anishinabe peoples worked in this role because they lived in between the European controlled lands in the east and the First Nation peoples in the West during this phase of the fur trade.
Who were the middlemen for the British and French?
These people developed a distinct culture at Red River. They became key to the fur trade as interpreters, guides, traders, and provisioners.
Who were the Métis people?
This term is used when one entity has complete and exclusive control over something. Like the Hudson's Bay Company had over the fur trade in Canada during phase 5.
What is a monopoly?
What is cod?/What are cod fisheries?
This was the main form of travel used by Europeans and is the reason why the fur trade routes followed river and lake systems. Europeans also needed this form of transportation to transport the large amount of furs back to Europe.
What are boats/canoes?
This new group of people, who are still recognized as an Indigenous people of Canada, resulted from the French and First Nation peoples having cross-cultural marriages.
Who were the (Francophone) Métis?
This European country started to dominate this phase of the fur trade and they also took over another European country's colony.
Who were the British?
These two languages are Canada's official languages because Britain and France were the two most influential European countries during the fur trade and the formation of Canada, and is a lasting impact still seen and felt today.
What are English and French?