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Period: 1500 to
The Early Fur Trade
Phase One of the Fur trade -
1534
Jacques Cartier encounters first nation people.
Cartier sent two men on a boat to trade with the First Nation people. They trade iron goods for beaver furs. -
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Expansion of the Inland
phase 2 -
Champlain sets up Port Royale
This would be later taken by the British. -
Champlain sets up Quebec City
Champlain spends a winter here. -
French Haudenosaunee War begins
Ouendat, Anishinable, Mi'kmaq, Kichesiprini, and the Innu teamed up with the French to take down the Haaudenosaunee and the British. -
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French Haudenosaunee War
This war is also known as the Beaver War. -
French and Ouendat attacking a Onondaga village
This village is apart of the Haudenosaunee. -
Haudenosaunee defeats the Ouendat
This halts the trade between the French and Great Lakes First Nation groups. -
Britain creates the Hudson Bay Company
This company trades goods for fur. -
Period: to
Rival Networks
Phase 3 -
Voyageurs Emerged to trade with the Great Lakes tribes
Men traveled on canoes from Montreal to the Great Lakes to trade for fur after the Ouendat was defeated by the Haudenosaunee. -
New France made Trading forts in the Great Lakes
Some voyageurs left from these forts to gather furs from trading and return to the forts. -
Pierre Gaultier de la Verendrye made the first fort in Manitoba
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The Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Britain attacks the French city Quebec. -
Period: to
The Drive West
Phase 4 -
New France became a British Colony
Britain had invaded New France and had successfully taken New France. -
Peter Pond made the first fur trade fort in Alberta
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The North West Company had formed
Independent merchants decided to create this company because the Hudson Bay Company controls the routes to trade. -
Fort Chipweyan
A trading fort. -
Fort George and Fort Buckingham are rivals
Fort George is apart of the North West Company and Buckingham is Hudson Bay. This two forts would sabotage each other and steal each others furs. -
Fort Edmonton
Another Trading fort. -
Fort Lac La Biche
A fort to trade iron goods for furs. -
Rocky Mountain House
A trading fort in the Rocky's. -
Dunvegan
A Trading fort. -
Hudson Bay and North West merged
The Fur Trade led to Fighting and shootings, So Britain encouraged them to become the Hudson Bay Company all together. -
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Monopoly in the West
Phase 5 of the Fur Trade. -
Letitia Hargrave writes a letter to his mother
Talks about how the First Nations looked and how they walked around the fort. -
Father Lacombe
he is a priest, he was a negotiator for the cree and blackfoot first nations. -
Father Lacombe converted First Nation to Catholicism
This was something nobody today would do. -
Canada became a country
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Canada buys Rupert's land from Hudson Bay Company
two tears after Canada becomes a country.
