hello! we have some furs to trade. do you have irons?
yes. lets start the fur trade
phase 1: the early fur trade.1500- 1603 french and british fished off the east cost and soon met with the miqmak and and began to trade with them.
phase 2: Expansion Inland. 1603- 1670. the french traded with the first nations around the great lakes and the st. Lawrence river.
i can trade this fine fur for that pot.
hmmmmm... Yes.
phase 3: Rival networks. 1670- 1760. Britain made HBC . Britain & France were both trading with the FN. The 2 countries started competing in the fur trade.
I WANT TO TRADE RIGHT NOW
I CAME HERE FIRST!
we should move west, there, we can have a new and fresh fur trade territory
hmmmm...
we need a new fur trade territory, we should head west. there, nobody will bug us. and we will have all the best items!
phase 4: the drive west. 1760- 1821. the NWC and the HBC started competing and they both moved to the west trying to be the ones to get new fur trading territory.
let us join the HBC and the NWC into one company.
yes! let us call it the hudson bay company
phase 5: monopoly in the west. 1821-1870. the british and the french made a agreement and joined the NWC & the HBC into one company and called it the hudson bay company. and traded all across canada