Fur Traders and Trappers By Alli and Emma

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Fur Traders and Trappers By Alli and Emma
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Who were they?

• Etienne Brule,
• Louis Joliet,
• Medard des Groseilliers,
• Pierre Esprit Radisson,
• Jean Nicolet,
• Guillaume Couture,
• Jean Baptiste Chalifoux,
• and Jacques de Noyon

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Where did they trade?

• North-West Company
• Also called NWC
• Hudsons Bay Company
• Also called HBC

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Why were the French fur traders there?

• To get rich and to trade furs. Back then furs
  were very valuable.

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What were French fur traders doing in America?

• They were trading fur to the Indians and selling
  them back in England. Once in a while they would
  compete by seeing who can get the most furs.

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When it started

• The earliest
• European
• exploration of an
• area is believed to
• have occurred about
• 1688 when French
• explorer Jacques de
• Noyon wintered along the Rainy River.

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What are Voyageurs?
Because of the effectiveness of voyageurs,
the NWC was able to challenge the HBC. The HBC
started hiring their own voyageurs in 1815 to
help them compete with the NWC. Voyageurs A
woodsman, boatman, or guide employed by a fur
company to transport goods and supplies between
remote stations in Canada or the U.S. Northwest.
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Why was alcohol a bad part of the trade for the
Indians?

• In a lot of Indian tribes alcohol was an
  devastating and bad part of the trade. The
  Indians got violent and drunk. For other people
  it was an important part of the trade.

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What did they offer to the Iroquois?

• Fur traders offered the Iroquois trade goods
  which included iron tomahawks, knives, axes,
  awls, fish hooks, cloth of various colors, woolen
  blankets, linen shirts, brass kettles, silver
  jewelry, assorted glass beads, guns and powder.

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Honest traders or not?

• While there were honest traders who dealt
  fairly with the Iroquois, too many greedy, bad
  men in the trade cheated and exploited them.

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• Here are some beaver, bear, and wolf traps that
  they would use.

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• Fur Loft at Hudson Bay Company

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• Fur traders would take some of these routes.