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Period: Feb 22, 1500 to
Phase 1: The Early Fur Trade
The cod fishery began the early fur trade -
Feb 21, 1534
European Explorer: Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier recorded his first meet with a group of Stadacona -
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Phase 2:Expansion Inland
France dominated the fur trade during this Phase. New France became permanently established -
Founding of Port Royal
Samuel De Champlain establishes the first French colony in North America -
Samuel De Champlain:Quebec
Champlain again travelled to the St Lawrence river and established a settlement called Qubec -
Trading fort: Fort Anne
Fort Anne was a trading fort in Nova Scotia -
First Nations 2
French and the Oendat attack a little village -
First Nations 1
Haudenosaunee defeated the Oendat -
Hudson's Bay Company
The HBC competed directly with France in the Fur trade. To set up the company, Britain offered a group of merchants a monopoly on trade in an area it claimed as Rupert's Land. -
Trade on Great Lakes
After the Oendat was defeated New France needed a new way to maintain a trade with first nations on the Great Lakes. They set up forts on The Great Lakes and sent men on canoe trips to trade -
Hudson's Bay Company
The HBC competed directly with France in the Fur trade. To set up the company, Britain offered a group of merchants a monopoly on trade in an area it claimed as Rupert's Land -
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Phase 3:Rival Networks
Britain Established the Hudsons Bay Company in 1670 -
French Haudenosaunee War
In this war the dutch and then the British helped the Haudenosaunee who used conflict to challenge French domination over the fur trade. the Haudenosanee defeated the French Ally the Oendat. Military and the Anishnabe forced the Haudenosanee to seek tune in 1701 -
First Nations 3
Anishnabe and French soldiers force the Haudenosaunee to seek a truce -
Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye
Established the fur trading fort which soon became Manitoba -
The Battle Of The Plains Of Abraham
The battle of the plains of Abraham was between the French and The British on a farming field in Quebec. During the battle both sides were watching the St Lawrence River because which ever side came back first with renforecmets would win, and the British did -
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Phase 4: The Drive West
Development of the western fur trade -
New France Becomes a British colony
The entire fur trade, the Montreal trade, and the HBC trade went under British control. This was the start of an economic shift. -
Peter Pond
A British trader named Peter Pond established the first fur trading fort which became Alberta -
Fort Chipyewan
1 of the trading forts that is an Albertan city today -
Trading fort: Bas De Riviere
This is a trading fort in Manitoba -
Edmonton
2) A trading fort that is an Albertan city today -
Lac La Biche
3) Trading fort that is an Albertan city today -
Rocky Mountain House
4) Trading fort that is an Albertan City today -
Dunvegan
5) Trading fort that is an Albertan city today -
North West Company and Hudsons Bay Company merge
The Furious competition between the HBC and the NWC lead to shootings, fights and hostage takings. Britain ended the conflict by encouraging the companies to merge under the HBC -
Father Albert Lacombe
A Canadien Oblate Priest arrived in Alberta.He converted many first nations to catholic and introduced them to farming -
Canada buys ruperts land
The Government of John A MacDonald bought ruperts land where the HBC was located -
Canada becomes a country
After a lot of wars and treaties, Canada becomes its own country
