HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Red River Colony, Trade Wars, Michif Language
9 Jun 2020
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The way to the bc borders they were competing with each other, trying to head off trade before it go further east, they used young michif and country born traders to gain access wherever they went. Hb company did not like trading inland bur rather stay on the coast they were forced to compete with the nwc. The explosion of the forts what did was it exhausted the fur supply all through the plains all in canada. Battle of seven oaks the creation of the metis nation . The battle of seven oaks was one of the first times the m tis asserted themselves as the. New nation with rights to trade as they wished and travel freely on their own land. The both companies emerged into one called the mono conglomerate hbc in. Between the hbc and the nw, the hbc was trying to impose a law the pemmican.
