Fur Trade Project
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- First Nations and Europeans learned to get along because they both wanted to trade. They began to respect each others way of life.
- We respect and admire your way of life.
- Europeans benefited 10 time more for the pelts than they paid for goods to trade.
- Welcome to the fur trade
- we offer one gun for 10 furs!
- I would like one beaver pelt
- you wouldn't survive without us!
- Europeans needed a great deal of help from the first Nations to help them cope in the wilderness
- were gonna freeze out here.
- In 1701, 1300 delegates from 40 First Nation communities arrived in Montreal. After the treaty was signed the First Nations would no longer battle each other or the French.
- treaty
- France controlled trade along the St. Lawerence which gave them an advantage, they could now paddle through rivers and lakes to transport goods as far west as the Rocky Mountains.
- The French made good use of the First Nation knowledge of the transportation routes.
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