The Haudenosaunee and fur trade

Why was the fur trade happening?

The French gave European goods to Indigenous people in exchange for beaver pelts. The fur trade was the most important industry in New France. With the money they made from furs, the French sent settlers to Canada. These were mainly traders and religious missionaries.

Why was the fur trade happening?

Why was the fur trade important?

The fur trade was important because it provided Indigenous peoples with European goods that they could use for gift-giving ceremonies, to improve their social status and to go to war. The French forged military alliances with their Indigenous allies in order to maintain good trade and social relations.

Why was the fur trade important?

Why did the Euripeanins want beaver furs for fashion?

When the wide-brimmed felt hat came into fashion in the late 16th century, the demand for beaver pelts increased tremendously. The best material for hat felt was the soft underfur of the beaver. Its strands have tiny barbs that make them mat together tightly.To exploit the trade more effectively, the first French traders established permanent shore bases in Acadia, a post at Tadoussac. They also founded a base at Quebec in 1608. The following year, the Dutch began trading up the Hudson River. In 1614, they established permanent trading posts at Manhattan and upriver at Orange (now Albany, New York). This activity marked the beginning of an intense rivalry between the two commercial empires of the Dutch and the French. It also involved their respective Indigenous allies, the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaunee, both of whom were supplied with guns by their European allies.

Why did the Euripeanins want beaver furs for fashion?

Who started the fur trade?

The fur trade began in the 1600s in what is now Canada. It continued for more than 250 years. Europeans traded with Indigenous people for beaver pelts. The demand for felt hats in Europe drove this business. The fur trade was one of the main reasons that Europeans explored and colonized Canada. It built relationships between Europeans and Indigenous peoples.

Who was included in the fur trade?

Native Americans traded along the waterways of present-day Minnesota and across the Great Lakes for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in the mid-1600s. For nearly 200 years afterward, European American traders exchanged manufactured goods with Native people for valuable pelts and furs.

Who was included in the fur trade?

What is the fur trade?

The fur trade was a vast commercial enterprise across the wild, forested expanse of what is now Canada. It was at its peak for nearly 250 years, from the early 17th to the mid-19th centuries. It was sustained primarily by the trapping of beavers to satisfy the European demand for felt hats. The intensely competitive trade opened the continent to exploration and settlement. It financed missionary work, established social, economic and colonial relationships between Europeans and Indigenous people, and played a formative role in the creation and development of Canada.

What was being traded?

The main animal that was hunted, traped and traded for it's fur was the beaver. Other animals that were trapped for the fur trade were marten, otter, lynx, mink and fox.

What happened because of the fur trade?

They sold furs to three fur trade companies: Hudson’s Bay Company, the North West Company, and the American Fur Company. Dealing with competing fur trade companies was profitable for Métis trappers because they could sell their furs to the highest bidder. However, these profits began to diminish in 1821 when HBC and the NWC merged, operating as a new entity under the retained HBC name. HBC’s new-found monopoly on the fur trade meant lower fur prices. Furthermore, in Europe, less expensive silk hats became more popular during the 1830s, causing beaver prices to continue to drop. Prices also dropped for the furs of other animals, and many Métis trappers who had become reliant on the fur trade had to do other things to support their families.

How did the fur trade contribute to issues between groups

Because of the number of animals that were being hunted tribes were dieing of starvation

how did the fur trade contribute to issues between groups?

How did the fur trade help develope Canada?

How did the fur trade help?

The intensely competitive trade opened the continent to exploration and settlement. It financed missionary work, established social, economic and colonial relationships between Europeans and Indigenous people, and played a formative role in the creation and development of Canada.

How did the fur trade materials benefit both sides?

The fur trade provided Indigenous peoples with European goods that they could use for gift-giving ceremonies, to improve their social status and to go to war. The French forged military alliances with their Indigenous allies in order to maintain good trade and social relations.

Where did the first nations hunt

well it really depends on where the first nations are. Because different groups hunt in different areas such as the woodland first nations that wood hunt in the woodland but sometimes in the open.

where did the first nations hunt

where did the first nations trade

At first their were no real spots that were used for trading but then as the fur trade continued the euripeans built houses for the euripeans to stay in what they called Acadia which is now being call Nova Scotia

where did the first nations trade