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- In North America, the fur trade brought a great change. In Europe and Asia, there was a high demand for beaver and sea otter furs to make clothing.
- Europeans came to North America to trade with the First Nations. They needed furs to survive and to make clothing for the winter.
- First Nations, Metis and Inuit acted as guides and traded furs for European goods, like clothes, guns and metal.
- First Peoples developed a common trading language with the Europeans. It was called Chinook and some words are still used today.
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- It was not good when one group was taking advantage of another and underselling the price of a product.
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- The fur trade brought more Europeans to North America and, they settled and developed western Canada.
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