Early Contact & the Fur Trade
Students explore how the fur trade brought First Nations peoples and Europeans together, creating partnerships that shaped the early history of Canada.
Key Questions
- 1How did the fur trade change the relationship between First Nations and Europeans?
- 2What did each side gain and lose from the fur trade?
- 3Why was the beaver so important to the economy of early Canada?
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