Hudson's Bay Company and British Explorers

Pierre Radisson and Sieur des Groseilliers were two ​ (a)   who convinced the ​ (b)   to set up a fort near Hudson Bay.

• coureurs de bois
• soldiers
• First Nations people
• British
• French
• priests

True or False: Radisson and des Groseilliers told the French governor about Hudson Bay first, but he declined to explore it

• True

• False

King Charles granted the Hudson's Bay company a _____________ allowing them full control over fur trade in the area surrounding the bay.

The area of land controlled by Hudson's Bay company was called ​ (a)  

• Rupert's Land
• Acadia
• New France
• 13 Colonies
• Newfoundland

How did the French respond to the British claiming Rupert's Land?

• Forming an alliance

• Attacking the British forts in Rupert's Land

• They asked the Pope to intervene

• They built their own forts in the area to compete with the British

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Treaty of Utrecht?

• Acadia was transferred to the British

• Areas of Rupert's Land were returned to Britain

• France claimed all British territory in North America

The ​ (a)   built fur trade forts at the mouths of important rivers and let the Indigenous Peoples come to them.

The ​ (b)   sent traders into the interior of North America to trade with Indigenous Peoples where they lived.

• British
• French
• Spanish

Match each explorer to their description

• Sir John Franklin

• Mapped most of the shoreline on the Pacific Coast

• Samuel Hearne

• Failed to find gold but was the first explorer to find the Arctic Ocean

• Henry Kelsey

• Died trying to find the Northwest Passage

• Anthony Henday

• Was unable to convince the Siksika to trade with the Hudson's Bay Company

• George Vancouver

• Was the first explorer to reach Saskatchewan and the grasslands