Fur Trade Timeline

Coureurs de Bois time period

Period: 1610 to 1715

French Canadian traders traded with First Nations people.

des Grosseilliers fights with Huron against the Iroquois

1646

Hudson's Bay Company Founded

May 2, 1670

Location: London, England
Founders: Médard Chouart des Grosseiliers, Pierre-Esprit Radisson

Voyageur time period

Period: 1715 to 1892

Voyageurs who were licensed to trade traded with the First Nations people.

Pierre LaVerendye's journey

Period: 1730 to 1739

Pierre LaVerendye and his sons create trading posts in the area west of Lake Superior

Samuel Hearne built Cumberland House for the Hudson Bay Company

1774

North West Company founded

1779

Alexander Mackenzie Important Years

Period: 1788 to 1793

Alexander Mackenzie attempts to find the Northwest passage.

Period: Jul 3, 1789 to Jul 14, 1789

Mackenzie follows rivers flowing in the northwest direction in an attempt to find the Northwest passage.

Alexander Mackenzie leaves Fort Chipewyan

Oct 10, 1792

Alexander Mackenzie helped create "Fort Fork."

Nov 1, 1792

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Coast

Jul 20, 1793

David Thompson set out to map part of the Canada-U.S. boundary.

1797

Lord Selkirk becomes a Philanthropist

1799

Thomas Douglas(A.K.A. Lord Selkirk) inherits the Selkirk claims and sponsors Scottish farmers by giving them a place to live in the Red River Colony.

Daniel Williams Harmon writes his journal

Period: Apr 29, 1800 to Aug 18, 1819

Harmon writes his journal on the daily life of a fur trader and his struggles in a libertarian environment.

Lord Selkirk first attempts colonisation

1812

Roughly 128 men arrive.

Battle of Seven Oaks

Jun 19, 1816

The conflict between the Metis and the Scottish newcomers results in a battle which kills 21 of Selkirks men and 1 Metis.

North West Company closed

1821

Hudson's Bay Company sold Rupert's Land to Canada

1869