HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: York Factory, Cuthbert Grant, Peter Pond

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2500
• Professor: Sean Kheraj

Document Summary

1607 english muscovy company voyage (his company assigned him to find asia) Hudson intended to go north but the ship turned south. Hudso(cid:374)"s bay co(cid:373)pa(cid:374)y: gra(cid:374)ted a (cid:373)o(cid:374)opoly to trade furs to all (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ies alo(cid:374)g the hudso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ay o(cid:374) may (cid:1006) (cid:1005)(cid:1010)(cid:1011)(cid:1004). (cid:862) ole trade a(cid:374)d co(cid:373)(cid:373)er(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:862)true a(cid:374)d a(cid:271)solute lordes a(cid:374)d propietors(cid:863) Used the hudson bay to england and/or the great lakes through the strait to england. Cree, assiniboine, annishnabe are (cid:272)losest to ja(cid:373)es bay a(cid:374)d hudso(cid:374)"s bay a(cid:374)d (cid:271)e(cid:374)efited fro(cid:373) their trapping. These nations would trade with other further nations to trade back to the. These are the middlemen or first nations traders. Dene, niitsitapi, siksika, kainai, piikani encouraged mostly in trapping. Middlemen controlled access to guns / deception of made beaver for higher prices. Euro and fn retained autonomy: women in french fur trading. Re-established previous european contacts; inland trade networks. Nw was more aggressive/violent but hbc could be equally as violent.