History 2201E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lake Ontario, Covenant Chain, Isaac Jogues
20 Jun 2012
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European trades fighting for the best furs as well as allegiance from. Native trading partners: what comes out of the hudson bay and albany goes to england, st. Lawrence goods go to france: availability of shipping was an issue. To get the furs out was difficult, limited amount of time to get them out because river ways freeze. If at war at home, most likely going to be at war on the seas, will fight each other/take goods from each other: tried to create monopoly companies. East india company and hudson bay company of the. British: lots of illegal trade going on as well, factors local traders, illegal traders deep in the interior called the coureurs du bois (runners of the woods) Eventually give their talents to the english because they weren"t being helped by the french: good traders had to be clever, honest. Weren"t supposed to give alcohol to natives. Some were not, caused breakdown of the trade.
