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They were french-Canadian explorers who engaged in the transporting of furs across the rivers in canoes. Jacques Cartier looks for gold in Canada but finds that there is an abundance of natural resources such as fish and furs.
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Jacques Cartier sent two men in canoes to trade with first Nation's people. They traded pots, knifes and other iron goods for beaver pelts.
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When Europeans came to Canada they saw that there was lots of fur animals and that the First Nations had these furs due to them hunting in the area, so the Europeans decided to trade with them.
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Born April 30 1770 - February 10 1857
David Thompson is a British-Canadian surveyor, map creator, and fur trader. He also was one of the first people to actually map out northern America. -
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This is a river that splits up one that goes up, to the north which has many beavers and other fur animals running around, then there was the south Saskatchewan river that was a prairie river with few furs.
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The privately funded company is solely funded by John Jacob Astor, that sent both fur traders on sea and as well as land.
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He was given the Red River Colony in 1811 by the Hudson Bay Company.
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He was first governor of the colony of British Columbia, he also worked for both the Hudson bay company as well as Northwest Company.
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The fur trade slowly collapsed because of the lack of furs around, due to many people hunting in the area excessively and the few remaining First Nations around to actually assist the Europeans and keep the fur trades going. The Europeans switched to silk hats which killed the fur trade with a fatal blow.