5Ws of the Canada The Fur Trade Storyboard
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Early History of Canada
By Liane Hicks
Canada is the second largest country in the world and covers the entire northern half of North America not including Alaska. It is a vast land of varying landscapes from the rocky seashores to the wide open prairies to the frigid ice fields and its majestic mountains. Learn more with Storyboard That!
Storyboard Description
Answer the questions for: "who, what, when, where, why, and how" regarding the Fur Trade and it's impact on North America.
Storyboard Text
- HOW did it impact history?
- The fur trade led to European colonization of Canada.
- WHAT was the fur trade?
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- WHO was involved?
- The fur trade was one of the main reasons that Europeans explored and colonized Canada. With it came new settlers, missionaries, and Britain, France and the Indigenous Peoples vying for control over the land.
- Europeans traded with Indigenous people for beaver pelts in Canada. The immense popularity of European felt hats drove the business. Beavers in Europe were hunted to near extinction but Canada had plenty!
- The major players were the First Nations, the French, and the British. The French traded with First Nations such as Huron and Algonquin for beaver pelts. The British traded with First Nations such as those in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. These would become important alliances.
- WHY did it occur?
- MONEY
- LAND
- THE FUR TRADE: 5Ws & H
- WHEN did it occur?
- WHERE did it occur?
- North-WestTerritories
- The French and British wanted to make money from the fur trade and control the land while First Nations sought to maintain their land rights and heritage. The fur trade was the most important industry in the region and it increased the wealth and power of those that controlled it.
- POWER
- The fur trade began in the 1600s and lasted for more than 250 years!
- 1600s-1870
- The Fur Trade stretched throughout Canada and the Northern United States in regions like the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay, "Rupert's Land”, and the "North-West Territories”.
- Rupert's Land
- Hudson Bay
- Great Lakes
- Canada West
- Canada East
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