1. New France The Fur Trade

2. n There were six important parts of the fur trade:

3. n #1 - The Beaver - the beaver have two layers of fur, one short and one long, and they are perfect for making warm hats.

5. n # 2 - The Native Peoples - they trapped the beavers, skinned them, and brought them to the trading outposts.

7. n #3 - Coureurs de Bois - “Runners of the Woods” - Frenchmen who hunted and trapped beavers like the Indians.

8. n The Voyageurs were the same as the coureur de bois except they had a license to trap and trade beaver (which was necessary because so many french settlers wanted to be coureur do bois)

9. n #4 Birchbark Canoes - the rivers were the highways in the 17th and 18th centuries and canoes could cover up to 150 km in one day carrying four tonnes of supplies.

10. n #5 The Merchants - they traded clothes, blankets, tools, muskets, gun powder, and brandy for beaver skins.

11. n For Example: n 12 beaver skins = 1 musket

12. n 4 beaver skins = 4.5 litres of brandy

13. n 2 beaver skins = 10 fish hooks

14. n #6 Fashions in Europe - everyone in Europe needed a beaver skin hat to be “in style” (and they were willing to pay a lot of money)

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