Early Fur Trade
He stayed with the Stadacona people and recorded interactions between his crew and the First Nations on the East Coast.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
One of the two main cities used for trading during the expansion into the inland.
What is Quebec?
The company that the British established during the fur trade.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
The food was made from dried meat that was pounded and mixed with berries and fat.
What is pemmican?
The two animals that decreased in population near the end of the fur trade.
What are buffalo and beaver.
The main trading First Nations traders in the early fur trade.
Who are the Mi'kmaq
The area colonized by France from 1534 to 1773
What is New France?
Surprise Question
The lands around the Hudson Bay were suited for agriculture.
False!
The extra group of people that was added to the Metis culture in 1670.
Who were the Scots?
The word used to describe non-Christian people.
What is heathenish?
The French preserved their fish this way instead of the British's drying stations on shore.
What is salt?
The people who aimed to convert the First Nations to Christianity.
Who were the missionaries?
The men who paddled the St. Lawrence to keep the fur trade on its feet.
Who were the Voyageurs?
The year New France became an English colony.
What is 1763?
The people that the Metis traders started supplying pemmican and other goods to.
Who were the Americans?
Suprise Question
True or False: The settlements that early Europeans established were permanent.
False!
They were independent, entrepreneurial men who traded with the First Nations.
Who was the Courer de Bois?
The two nations that were used as middlemen for the British.
Who are the Cree and Nakoda?
The group of British, French and Metis merchants that competed with the HBC in Manitoba.
Who is the North West Company?
The year that the British convinced the NWC to merge under the HBC name.
What is 1821?
The fish that European settlers first came for during the early days of the fur trade.
What is Cod?
The war between the Haudenosaunee and the French.
What are the Beaver Wars?
The French-Indigenous group that emerged during this phase of the fur trade.
Who are the Francophone Metis?
The main group of items traded to the indigenous people during the fur trade.
What are metal goods?
The year Rupert's Land was sold and became Canada.
What is 1869?