Usuario
when the Europeans came to Canada, they tried their best to make their culture the bigger one
To make money
They prepared furs, worked on the forts, taught languages and other important things to the traders.
The French colony of Acadia was given to Britan, changing the name to Nova Scotia
He was the first intendant of New France
He wanted to participate in the transport of goods from New France to France (the Mother Country) in turn for more money
He sent Coureurs de Bois into the interior of the county to expand the trading system
The Jesuits, as missionaries, they attempted to convert as many Indigenous people as
possible to Catholicism.
Transportation. It was the best.
French Fur Trade
The French king controlled the fur trade and used some of the profits to benefit the colony.
Coureurs de bois went into the interior to trade with First Nations; built relationships with First Nations people, especially the Wendat
French traders controlled trade along the St. Lawrence River and on the Great Lakes.
Coureurs de bois used the sturdy and lightweight birch bark canoe to transport trade goods and furs; voyageurs used York boats.
The French made use of First Nation knowledge of transportation routes.
Furs were transported to Montreal for shipment to Europe.
Due to the lengthy transport route, the French took two years to get furs to market in Europe.
English Fur Trade
The Hudson’s Bay Company controlled the fur trade for the sole purpose of making money.
English traders waited for First Nations trappers to bring the furs to them.
The English built forts along the shores of Hudson Bay at the mouths of major rivers draining Rupert’s Land.
First Nations hunters/trappers brought furs to English forts along the coast of Hudson Bay.
First Nations people were often employed at the posts performing many necessary functions.
Large supply ships could deliver heavy supplies directly to the English forts via the Atlantic Ocean, Hudson Strait and into the Bay. The Hudson’s Bay Company could get furs to England in one year.
Metal goods from the Europeans
Diseases
To trade goods instead of money
Hardened Civil War veterans who moved from Montana to sell “whiskey” at
places like Fort Whoop-Up
he barter system – exchanging goods for other goods
Americans who travelled into the Northwest to take part in the fur trade. They
established the first fur-trading post in what is now Alberta. They were rivals to
traders from the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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