English Fur Trade Comic Strip
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- The workers of the HBC
- In 1670, the English king granted a charter for control of the fur trade to the privately owned Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). It had one goal: to make money.
- In 1779, a group of new traders from Montréal formed the North West Company. Known as the Nor’Westers, they extended the fur trade farther than it had been in the days of New France. The traders ran an efficient business. They were the Voyageurs. Most were Francophone citizens of North America. They were joined by Mohak and Anishinabe paddlers. The rest were Metis. they played a substantial role in the fur trade.
- Selling Furs!
- Voyageur
- The greatest disaster that resulted from the fur trade was disease. The traders and missionaries who came from Europe brought many small diseases such as smallpox, measles, influenza etc. These diseases did not exist in North America before the Europeans came, and the First Nations had no immunity. Hundreds of thousands of First Nations and Inuit died in an epidemic that swept across the continent. The 1781-1782 smallpox epidemic killed three out of every five First Nations people on the prairie.
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