French Fur Trade

Coureur de Bois spent ​ (a)   at shops

Shop owners used ​ (b)   to buy food from farmers

Farmers used money to buy ​ (c)   from other businesses

• wages
• profits
• services

Match each cause to its effect.

• French traders travelled further inland

• Jean Talon wanted to attract colonists to New France

• He instilled the mercantile system

• Jean-Baptiste Colbert wanted to enrich France

• Number of colonists doubled

• Marquis de Frontenac had to respond to Wendat society collapsing

Which First Nations group was at war with many other groups prior to the Peace of Montreal?

• Wendat

• Haudenosaunee

• Ojibwa

• Beothuk

How did the Peace of Montreal affect the French Fur Trade?

• Only the Haudenosaunee were allowed to trade furs after the peace treaty

• The Coureur de Bois had to stop travelling in Indigenous lands

• The Coureur de Bois were free to travel in peace

• All groups decided to stop trading furs because it was causing too much conflict

Declining ______ populations caused French Traders to travel further to find furs

The French had an advantage over the English because they controlled the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.

Locate them on the map