The Fur Trade in the West

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

1. Question 1

   The fur trade changed the lives of Indigenous peoples. One long-term effect was…

   • new trade goods and, with settlers, disease and pressure on the land
   • every Nation moved to Europe
   • the end of all trade
   • no change at all
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   new trade goods and, with settlers, disease and pressure on the land

   Hint: The trade brought benefits and hardships.

2. Question 2

   Rupert's Land was the huge territory whose rivers drain into Hudson Bay. Who claimed to hold it by royal charter?

   • The Government of Alberta
   • The Hudson's Bay Company
   • The United States
   • The Dominion of Canada in 1670
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   The Hudson's Bay Company

   Hint: The Crown's claim did not consider the Nations who already lived there.

3. Question 3

   Put these events in the order they happened.

   • 📜Hudson's Bay Company receives its charter, 1670
   • 🤝The two companies join, 1821
   • 🏘️Fort Edmonton, a Hudson's Bay Company post, is built on the North Saskatchewan River, 1795
   • 🛶North West Company formed in Montreal, 1779
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   Hudson's Bay Company receives its charter, 1670 → North West Company formed in Montreal, 1779 → Fort Edmonton, a Hudson's Bay Company post, is built on the North Saskatchewan River, 1795 → The two companies join, 1821

   Hint: Charter 1670, North West Company 1779, Fort Chipewyan 1788, Edmonton post 1795, merger 1821.

4. Question 4

   What did First Nations trading partners often receive in the trade?

   • Goods such as metal tools, cloth, guns and kettles
   • Only land
   • Only paper money
   • Nothing at all
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   Goods such as metal tools, cloth, guns and kettles

   Hint: Trade goods were exchanged for furs and food.

5. Question 5

   Who made much of the pemmican and moved goods by Red River cart in the fur trade?

   • Only British soldiers
   • Only people from Europe
   • Only gold miners
   • Many Métis families
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   Many Métis families

   Hint: The Métis have a long history in the western fur trade.

6. Question 6

   Why did the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company join in 1821?

   • The Rocky Mountains moved
   • Canada was formed that year
   • Both wanted to stop trading
   • Competition was costly and sometimes violent
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   Competition was costly and sometimes violent

   Hint: Joining ended the rivalry.

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