Key Terms
Name given to large piece of land "given" to the Hudson's Bay Company.
What is Rupert's Land?
This explorer was the first European to reach the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
Who was Samuel Hearne
First Nations peoples that lived in Newfoundland until they were eliminated by British colonists.
The Beothuk
The name given to the HBC forts where the beaver furs were traded and stored.
What are factories?
The first English explorer to try and set up a colony in North America. Both attempts failed because he and his men were not prepared for the harsh life in the North American Wilderness.
Who is Walter Raleigh.
What is Religious Freedom?
This HBC employee traveled as far west as today's Red Deer, AB.
Anthony Henday
What resource became scarce as the British fishers began setting up more stations and bringing more boats?
King Charles II granted this company a fur trading monopoly in Rupert's Land in 1670.
Who is the Hudson's Bay Company?
This explorer claimed Newfoundland for Britain.
John Cabot.
Person in charge of the HBC factories during the fur trade.
Who is the Factor?
This HBC employee travelled the prairies and lived with First Nations for two years.
Who is Henry Kelsey?
The last of the Beothuk, she tried to teach the English about the Beothuk culture.
Who is Shanawdithit?
Pierre de Troyes' attack on the HBC trading posts was successful for this reason.
He came from the interior and surprised them.
Name of the Dene boy who helped the HBC explorers learn the woods, rivers, and the Dene language.
An economic system that allowed an imperial country to become rich by selling the resources taken from its colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
This explorer realized that Sea Otter pelts were very valuable.
Who is James Cook?
The Beothuk's fate may have been very different if the British colonists had been more interested in this than fishing.
What is the fur trade?
These people helped the HBC navigate the trails and rivers throughout Rupert's Land.
Voyageurs/Coureurs de Bois
The main difference between Britain and France's reasons for setting up colonies was this.
France wanted to be the most powerful, Britain only wanted money.
Supreme governing authority.
This explorer joined a party of Dene and their leader Matonabee.
Who is Samuel Hearne
When is during the winter when the fisherman had returned to Britain for winter?
Two of the British Explorers who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Who were Anthony Henday and Henry Kelsey.
Which of the British Explorers has a road named for them in Edmonton today?
Anthony Henday.