TheFurFrenchTrade-Information

Where did the French trade take places? O​ rigins. French explorer Jacques Cartier in
his three voyages into the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 1530s and 1540s conducted
some of the earliest fur trading between European and First Nations peoples
associated with sixteenth century and later explorations in North America.
The North American fur trade began as early as the 1500s and was a central part
of the early history of contact between Europeans and the native peoples of what
is now the United States and Canada.
What were the four major fur trading companies that operated in the Pacific Northwest
in the 1700s and 1800s?
-Hudson’s Bay Company
-Northwest Fur Company
-Pacific Fur Company
-Rocky Mountain Fur Company

Native American and European-American relations?
The relationship was strengthened because both of the groups benefited from the
trade and depended on each other for goods/furs.
Claims to the Pacific Northwest by Britain and the U.S.?
Because the United States was closer and sent more trappers, their claims to the
Pacific Northwest were also strengthened.
Exploration of the Pacific Northwest?
Sending all these trappers really helped to map the area and figure out what was
out there. It had led to a better understanding of the area.

The economic development and profit motive of the Pacific Northwest?
People began to realize that the Pacific Northwest wasn’t just wilderness. It was
an untapped goldmine of natural resources (furs, timber, fish, precious metals,
etc.). There was also millions of acres of unsettled land onto which people could
move
Prior to 1763 this major European country was a major power in the Western in the
Western Hemisphere.
French Colonizations of North America will dramatically differ from English
Colonizations.
Columbus the first guy 1492 and makes a few wrong turns
1524 Giovanni De Vezzano he is an Italian but he's