Fur Trade
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- The Fur Trade
- THE FUR TRADE PHASE 1-5 By: Khimani Afflick
- Phase 1
- I want your fish
- Phase 1: The Early Fur Trade1500-1603
- Ok you can have it but you have to give me the fur as a trade
- Phase 2
- Wow, seems like France is just taken over everything
- Yeah, Khimani but they need our fur and we need the fish so we are making this fur trade work now
- Phase 2: Expansion Inland1603-1670
- The Story of the fur trade told by Khimani Afflick
- Phase 3
- Phase 3: Rival Networks 1670 - 1760
- Where the fur trade started between the Europeans and First Nations
- Phase 4
- The French
- What a great idea to focus on the fur trade
- Expansions started to happen and also France dominated North America. Quebec & Montreal were critical for the fur trade network that ran along the St. Lawrence river
- Phase 5
- Phase 5: Monopoly in the West 1821 - 1870
- HBC + NWC =Together
- Britain established the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) in 1670 while Cree & Nakota worked for both the British & the French
- HBC
- Northwest Company took over the French trade network and while it was British-owned it only had French & Metis working for them. New France became a British colony in 1763
- British Owners focusing on land and farming
- Phase 4: The Drive West 1760 - 1821
- First NationWorkers
- Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) & Northwest Company (NWC) merged and HBC began to lose their monopoly, as independent Metis traders won a court case that allowed them to supply pemmican & furs to the Americans
- My name is Khimani, in this phase, we have merged the two companies. While also losing the fur trade and buffalos are starting to disappear... it is all very sad
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