HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Red River Colony, Northwest Passage, Muscovy Company
12 Jan 2017
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Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
Week 8
Fur Trade Frontier
Main Actors in Northwest Fur Trade
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Montreal-based fur trade companies
• First Nations trappers
• First Nations traders (middlemen)
• First Nations Women
Key Points
• Henry Hudson
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Rupert’s Land
• Northwest Company
• Métis
• Red River Colony
• Lord Selkirk
The Fate of Henry Hudson
• 1607: English Muscovy company voyage
• 1609: Dutch East India Company voyage
• 1610: enough provisions to make a journey for months but found themselves stuck in the
winter and had to survive through the winter
• Stayed from October to June
• Henry Hudson did not make it back from the voyage
• How do we know this happened if Henry Hudson did NOT make it back?
- Might have been stories about it
- The mutineers when they came back had to explain the discovery and what happened to
Hudson
- Info mainly came from one mutineer
• Hudson failed to find a northwest passage and a route to Asia
• Strait of Anian → one of the passages
Advent of the Northwest Fur Trade
• Pierre Radisson
• Médard Chouart, sieur des Groseilliers
• These two people couldn’t find investors to support idea of accessing interior region of the
northwest to engage in a more lucrative fur trade
• Instead they turn to English finance to support new fur trade called The Hudson’s Bay
Company
• Charter = “gave sole trade and commerce” and gave a “true and absolute Lordes and
Proprietors “
• Who did they trade with?
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Document Summary
Main actors in northwest fur trade: hudson"s bay company, montreal-based fur trade companies, first nations trappers, first nations traders (middlemen, first nations women. Key points: henry hudson, hudson"s bay company, rupert"s land, northwest company, m tis, red river colony, lord selkirk. The mutineers when they came back had to explain the discovery and what happened to. Info mainly came from one mutineer: hudson failed to find a northwest passage and a route to asia, strait of anian one of the passages. Advent of the northwest fur trade: pierre radisson, m dard chouart, sieur des groseilliers, these two people couldn"t find investors to support idea of accessing interior region of the northwest to engage in a more lucrative fur trade. Instead they turn to english finance to support new fur trade called the hudson"s bay. Company: charter = gave sole trade and commerce and gave a true and absolute lordes and.
