Unit 1

Early Canada

Skill Builders Targets

Lesson 1

How did the First Nations people work with the French and the British in the fur trade?

  • barter
  • ethnocentric
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • merchant
  • perspective

First Nations peoples and Europeans learned to get along because they wanted to trade with each other.

They learned how to respect one another’s differences and cultures.


Watch

Click the link to watch the "Canada Vignette - Trading Post" video clip about some of the first trading posts established.


Canada Vignette-Trading Post