Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Barter

• The exchange of goods for other goods rather than money

• Purchasing goods with money

• Transporting goods to be sold

Canadiens

• A Francophone descendant of the settlers of New France

• Any new settler in Canada

• First Nations peoples

Cause

• Something that makes an event happen

• Something that makes no change

Economy

• The way in which people meet their basic needs, such as food, clothing and shelter

• Saving money

• Trading furs

Effect

• The result of an event (of a cause)

• Something that makes an event happen

Ethnocentrism

• A viewpoint that judges other cultures according to personal values. Believing one's own ethnic group is superior.

• A viewpoint that is welcoming to all cultures and ethnic groups.

• A viewpoint that believes ethnicity and culture are central to our lives.

First Contact

• The first encounter between different groups of people with different cultures

• The first time explorers land in a new place

• The first time a explorers return home

Merchants

• In the fur trade, the financiers and organizers

• In the fur trade, the people who hunted for fur

• In the fur trade, the people who travelled to sell the fur

Metis

• People of mixed First Nations and European ancestry

• First Nations group

• First Nations group who travelled from the South

Nor'Westers

• A North West Company employee

• An Indigenous group from the North West

• A mountain range in the North West of Canada