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why First Nations were well positioned to become valuable partners in fur trade |
Prior to the arrival of European explorers and traders, First Nations people of northern North America were already part of a continent wide trading system. Therefore, when Europeans began to trade with Aboriginal people, Aboriginal people simply added the new trading items to the existing trading routes. |
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the political motives for French trade practices |
to bolster the French population in the colonies by creating new “French” citizens. The King of France wanted more French people to live in the colonies; however, since France was at war with England, he did not want to reduce the French population in France. The solution was to encourage French and First Nations (who were primarily Mik’maq) marriage in their colony of Acadia. The children of these marriages were automatically French citizens |
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the 5 benefits of the Charter given to the Hudson’s Bay Company |
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courier du bois |
There were a number of men (mostly poor) – some suggests hundreds of men – who became illegal fur traders, known as courier du bois. These men lived semi-permanently in the Great Lakes region and established formal relationships usually through marriage with the people they lived with. Eventually, the children of these marriages created a large population of mixed-ancestry people who lived in their own communities such as Green Bay, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit. The ethnogenesis of the Métis is connected to these communities. |
