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Chapter 4

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Chapter 4: The Fur Trade

(This booklet will help you keep track of the different phases of the fur trade,
and will provide you with information needed to study for the chapter exam)
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Here is a checklist of things you should have learned and should be able to
explain by the end of Chapter 4: The Fur Trade
1. I can explain how economic competition shaped the fur trade.
2. I can describe the different roles that the British, French, First Nations and Mtis
played in the fur trade.
3. I can give examples of the impact that the fur trade had on diverse peoples (those
listed above).

The next few questions deal with the five phases of the fur trade. You need to
complete the following for each section:
a. Title the phase (including the years)
b. Colour the French area red
c. Colour the British area blue
d. Fill in the chart below with at least two to three points about each side (the
British and the French) and their effect on the fur trade.

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Phase 1:

Who was involved?

How did the

What roles did

Influence on

When was it

economic

each society play?

migration and

happening?

competition

settlement?

influence the fur

Influence on

trade?

environment?

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Name:____________

Phase 2:

Who was involved?

How did the

What roles did

Influence on

When was it

economic

each society play?

migration and

happening?

competition

settlement?

influence the fur

Influence on

trade?

environment?

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Name:____________

Phase 3:

Who was involved?

How did the

What roles did

Influence on

When was it

economic

each society play?

migration and

happening?

competition

settlement?

influence the fur

Influence on

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trade?

Name:____________

environment?

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Chapter 4

Name:____________

Phase 4:

Who was involved?

How did the

What roles did

Influence on

When was it

economic

each society play?

migration and

happening?

competition

settlement?

influence the fur

Influence on

trade?

environment?

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Chapter 4

Name:____________

Phase 5:

Who was involved?

How did the

What roles did

Influence on

When was it

economic

each society play?

migration and

happening?

competition

settlement?

influence the fur

Influence on

trade?

environment?

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In the chart below identify the positive/negative effects of the fur trade.
Positives (+)
French
British
First Nations

Comparing the two major fur trading companies:

Negatives (-)

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Hudson Bay Company

Name:____________

North West Company

(NWC)

Year it was founded?

Who founded the
company?
In what area did it trade?
What group(s) did it trade
with?
What happened to it?

Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Study Questions

1. Give three examples of how technology influenced the fur trade.

2. Describe what a monopoly is in your own words and give an example.

3. Describe what mercantilism means in your own words and give an example.

4. Who were the Mtis? In what area did they live? What was their role in the fur
trade? (p. 117, 123)

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5. Who were the Coureurs de Bois? When did they begin? What was their role in
the fur trade? (p. 112)

6. Who were the middlemen in the fur trade? What was their role? (p. 111-112)

7. Why was Ruperts Land eventually sold to Canada? (p. 131)

8. What caused the French and the Haudenosaunee to go to war?

9. What technique did the British use to dry their fish? (p. 108)

10. Who was the leader in the Anishinabe society? (p. 113)

11. What was pemmican? How was it used? (p. 122)

12. What type of goods did the natives exchange with the Europeans for fur? (p.
128-129)