Fur Trade: 5 Phases Review

The First Nations such as the Mi’kmaq began to trade with Europeans

          coming to fish cod off the east coast.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

The French – Haudenosaunee war began this phase, causing the  

          Haudenosaunee to gain support from first the Dutch and then the

          British. They used the conflict to challenge French domination of the Fur

          trade.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

Ouendat became middlemen between the French and the First Nations

    established in the Great lakes region.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

The colony of New France was established. France dominated the fur trade.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

Coureurs de bois emerged but were made illegal by New France.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

The British established the Hudson Bay Company.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

The Francophone Métis have their origins during this phase in the fur trade.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

Cree and Nakoda middlemen emerged, they were the First Nations

         centrally located between the British and the French trading 

         networks.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

New France established trading forts in the Great Lakes region and

hired men (voyageurs) to make the canoe trips between its settlements along the St. Lawrence, the forts and points beyond.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5

Scottish Metis have their origin in the phase despite the HBC discouraging cross-cultural marriages.

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

• Phase 3

• Phase 4

• Phase 5