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Document Summary
No formal french activities 1540 -1600 but growing commercial fishery. French king can obtain the land but not the ocean. Green fishery- fish preserved with salt (salt pre-loaded on board). Alternative is dry fishery- land somewhere, dry the fish and then sailing back with dried fish, advantage is carry more fish, the significance is that there"re people going offshore to dry the fish. Furs came from the animals native people hunted. Dozens of boats were in contact with native people to trade furs. French king gave de monts the monopoly or legal rights to do the fur trading in st. lawrence. 1608 champlain decided to tell de monts that he decided to settle after discovered that the. This is the beginning of the founding of canada-the area of quebec based on fur trade settlement. Champlain made alliance with algonkin native people, the consequences of the alliance are that 1) enemies are made with such as the uroquan people.
