The fur trade, voyageurs and the Hudson’s Bay Company
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The fur trade linked Indigenous knowledge and trade networks with European demand. The Hudson’s Bay Company received its royal charter in 1670, while Montréal-based traders developed competing networks.
Scope & context
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More context
The guide describes voyageurs and coureurs des bois travelling by canoe and building relationships with First Nations. Trading posts helped shape places that later became cities. The trade also forms part of the historical context for the emergence of Métis communities and culture.
The company’s 1670 charter is a historical fact, not a statement that it governs Canadian territory today. Indigenous peoples were active participants with their own political and economic interests; they should not be described merely as helpers in a European story.
Sources behind this record
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Canada’s History; sections and tables identified in the research record