History 2201E Lecture : THE NORTHWEST BEFORE CONFEDERATION.doc
22 Mar 2012
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Introduction: the northwest roughly the part of present-day canada that includes the three prairie provinces and northwestern ontario was claimed as. Rupert"s land by the hudson"s bay company (hbc) following its establishment in: this lecture offers an overview of some two centuries of contact between the. First nations of this region and french and english traders. The fur trade was responsible for europeans" growing knowledge of this vast region and for a long period of white/aboriginal interaction, including extensive intermarriage and some reciprocal cultural change. But it was only in 1812 that a permanent white settlement was established and only in the 1840s that the settlement experienced significant impact from the outside world. The major turning point for the entire region would come only after confederation. A theme from our lecture on early white-aboriginal contacts in eastern canada is also relevant for this region, especially before the.
