1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Roles of the French Fur Trade Vocab People of the Fur Trade YOU TRADER! HBC or NWC?

2. Trapped animals and prepared furs, then took them to the post to trade

3. Who are Aboriginal Trappers

4. Traded with the trappers and worked at the post. Sent furs to Europe.

5. Who are Merchants

6. “runner of the woods”

7. Who are Coureurs de bois

8. Showed Europeans around the land, translated and gave information

9. Who are Aboriginal guides & interpreters

10. Fur traders who were given a licence from the government

11. Who are Voyageurs

12. Device used by Aboriginals to help carry heavy loads

13. What is a travois

14. Complete control given to a company to sell or made something

15. What is monopoly

16. Soup made of pemmican, flour and water

17. What is rubaboo

18. Carrying boats & supplies overland

19. What is portage

20. States the rights or duties of a group of people

21. What is a charter

22. French courier de bois who helped start the HBC

23. Who are Radisson & Groseilliers

24. French fur trader and explorer who build many fur trading forts across the west

25. Who is la Verandrye

26. HBC employee who tried to convince his company to change their trading methods

27. Who is Anthony Henday

28. Fur Trader who left the HBC to work for the NWC. He was a map maker

29. Who is David Thompson

30. HBC employee who explored the North and claimed land at the mouth of the Coppermine River

31. Who is Samuel Hearne

32. HBC employee who lived with the Assiniboine on the prairies in order to convince them to trade at the bay

33. Who is Henry Kelsey

34. NWC employee who found an overland route to the Pacific and had a northern river named after him

35. Who is Alexander MacKenzie

36. In 1821, when the HBC and NWC joined, what was the name given to the new company?

37. What is Hudson’s Bay Company

38. Why did the Fur Trade begin?

39. Europeans wanted furs for beaver hats. They were running out of beaver furs in Europe

40. Inuktitut for “our land”

41. What is Nunavut

42. More comfortable with trading alcohol for furs

43. Who is NWC

44. Took about 24 months to gets furs from trapping grounds to Europe

45. Who is NWC

46. Got paid a salary

47. Who is HBC

48. Marriage to Aboriginal women was not allowed

49. Who is HBC

50. They go to you and collect the furs in your territory

51. Who are NWC