The North American fur trade was the economic foundation that allowed the French to live and survive in the colony they built on the St. Lawrence river. Not only did it provide a means of selling and buying goods for the people of New France, but the fur trade also stimulated their own economic development and eventually the foundation of Canada. Key to understanding how the fur trade is fundamental to Canadian history, one must look at the nature of competition the Fur trade existed in. The fur trade was a system of trading goods amongst the French, the British and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The Europeans and the Indigenous people all mutually prospered but the competition that prevailed between these people and within their communities was extremely significant to how the fur trade shaped Canadian history. Before the fur trade began, New France originally profited through fisheries they’d established on the St. Lawrence River. The French eventually discovered that more money could be made in the beaver pelt business and they established a trading relationship with the indigenous people who already had broad experience in hunting. What started off as a few fisherman trading belt buckles and hatchets for the used beaver skin rags of the indigenous people, eventually sprawled into something much bigger. The Indigenous people had a vast …show more content…
Lawrence trading route did not have similar advantages. They only had access to lower quality beaver pelts. They had to endure tremendous traveling costs. They could only afford to sell items such as rum at non-competitive prices because they simply poor at transporting goods cost efficiently. The St. Lawrence trade system also did not have the same ability to pay off debt as the HBC. While the HBC could pay loans off in 6 months, the St. Lawrence posts would pay after 2-3 years. Not only were the people of New France poor at managing the St. Lawrence trading system but the people of France were just as
For the Fur Trade to take place Europeans and Osage had to develop relationships so they could travel in good locations. These relations started towards the beginning of the 1700s. The relations between the French and Osage were good, until one day when the French decided to use the trail to travel to Spanish land without the approval and direction from Osage. However, with the problems Osage stayed true to the French and did not let that ruin the relations they had with them. Despite the obstacles that were, faced Osage continued to fight with the French during the war.
By the 1500s, Europe had destroyed almost their source of fur. The occurrence of the “little ice age” resulted in panic from European countries and a ridiculously high demand for furs. This made fur prices rise and Merchants hungry to sell them. This is similar to when China began to use silver as their national currency, which made merchants eager to trade with them. Different from one another, the fur trade was incredibly competitive in the Americas.
Robert Pattinson came to America 1750s to get more resources so he could become rich and get more land. One thing that Gilles Marini traded a lot of is fur. Gilles along with the French traveled over the Appalachian Mountains to get more land. Taylor Lautner and the other natives were getting squished because more and more French and British were coming to America so the natives were losing lots of land. Robert had to cross the Appalachian Mountains to get to Ohio river valley.
During the early transplantation, France claimed and established a newly developed settlement along the St. Lawrence River and inner continents, for this was the start of his New World Empire. Near the shore of Newfoundland, local Indians traded beaver pelts and hats in exchange for European goods. This trading society leads to French explorers searching for furs and fish as a source of wealth. For example, in 1608 an explorer named Samuel De Champlain led a voyage to Quebec to establish permanent colonies for French settlement. While population and organization in government developed throughout New France, the government improvised with military and investing money for construction of forts.
With the fur trade, the French could use these furs to make items, or just sell the fur for gold or silver. The fur trade contributed greatly to the wealth that France had at the time. They also formed commercial companies, the members of these companies were various merchants from France. The promised to settle and colonize the land in return for rights to the land’s resources. They also traded beaver pelts, which were at a high cost because of limit of beavers in France.
There were no treaties signed in most of British Columbia because it was too costly and the federal government lost interest in the First Nations land. Europeans did not reach British Columbia until the late 1700s, after the signing of the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Most of the First Nations communities in B.C. did not sign treaties with the Crown. There were only two treaties that were signed with the Crown, Treaty 8 which “covers northern alberta and part of the nwt, stretches over the northeastern corner of bc” (Kulchyski 68), and the Douglas Treaties on Vancouver Island. The fur trade was a major moment at this time, and the Hudson’s Bay Company took part in it.
The English established posts in the Hudson River Valley and, allied with the Iroquois, engaged in a fierce competition with the French traders (allied mainly with the Hurons) for control of the trade in the central interior region. Until the early 18th century most of the latter were organized as independent proprietors or partnerships but, as the Montreal-based trade expanded further into the continental interior, increasing amounts of capital were required and a number of larger organizations were formed. Most of these were financed by wealthy Montreal "bourgeois", some of whom organized small companies to lease trading posts and hire workers to voyage west each spring with trade goods and bring back furs in the fall. (Some historians speculate that these fur-trading groups, largely concentrated in Montreal, constituted the beginning of a local, French Canadian business class, the further development of which was cut short by the British conquest in the 1760’s.) The trade goods they used were usually obtained through other Montreal merchants, some of whom also acted as intermediaries in marketing the furs in France.
As Cartier continued his journey, he discovered that the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) also wanted to trade. However, he believed that he had found a wealth of resources and claimed the land for France. By 1600, the fur trade had a high demand for beaver-felt in Europe. Beaver pelts were very popular because they could be materialized into felt.
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Why does Canada have so much French influence? Where did it come from and how? Aren’t we part of the British Commonwealth? These are all questions that I asked myself before learning about Samuel de Champlain and his influence on both France and Canada. Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer (cartographer, geographer, etc.) who journeyed across North America from 1603 until his death in 1635 (Ritchie, 2016; “Samuel de Champlain”, 2004; Wikipedia, 2016).
They also knew that they could trade it with other countries or people who also admired fur. The French came across Newfoundland because they were seeking a quicker, and more effective route to sail to China. This affects them economically because a quicker route
In “furs, Rivers and black Robe” it refutes the film’s deception of life in the great Lakers region. The quote on page 89 says “In the following document, neighbors of the Iroquois, the Cree, explain their traditional beliefs about the beaver and describe how those beliefs changed after the arrival of the Europeans.” This quote explains how before the Europeans arrived the natives looked at the beavers as something secret. Europeans made the natives change the way they thought about the beavers and made them think about the profit. Europeans were trading things that were very useful to the natives such as: knifes, guns, tools and other useful things.
Amongst Europeans, fur clothing was popular, and the new abundance of fur bearing animals in North America fed their desires. The fur trade did however destroy the beliefs of Native American culture. The European fur trade upset the balance of the American ecosystem, enticing Native Americans to over hunt their land and go against the traditions that kept their land abundant for centuries. European traders came to America and traded with Natives for the pelts of animals. This resulted in beaver fur traders’ supply getting so low that they “could flatly declare that they had none,” The beaver, along with other fur bearing animals, had been hunted so extensively that the species became scarce.
French Exploration in the New World French Exploration began about forty years after Columbus sailed to the new world. They hoped to find a passageway that would get them to the east to trade, through America, Along with spreading Christianity with the natives and claiming land. The French found that Furs were a large thing on the trade market. So fur trading became a huge part in French History in America.
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety-two. When one hears the name Christopher Columbus, they tend to think about his discovery of America. What they don’t consider is how his discovery changed and affected America. First of all, Columbus’ discovery provided the start of a long term colonization, which created what we know today as America. People, who immigrated from another country, traveled all over the world to make it to America in hopes of getting land in “The New World”.