The fur trade was an expanding event. It traveled from coast to coast as Canada was established. As the Europeans arrived they noticed that the first nations had stuff that they wanted such as beaver skins. They started noticing that different colonies had different goods and expanded northerly and westerly to places with more colonies and more goods to trade. They traded with the first nations until Canada became a country and made a currency.
Wood, grains, and bison are all reasons that the Europeans ventured westward leaving behind small villages and establishments full of potential. Samuel de Champlain was the first to realize this potential (Canadiana). Soon after the English and French realized how much money they could make from this trade they started to fight about who would get what. The fighting between the Europeans affected the first nations, in the sense that they would start fighting and stealing from each other on their way to meet with the Europeans. The fighting between the First Nations and the Europeans as the trade was expanding made the fur trade slow down to the point that they thought it might all come to a stop. Luckily two French men came to Canada just in time to save the day and save the fur trade.
As more Europeans came over to Canada to start their new lives in a new country they brought with them what they thought they had left behind. All of the people pile onto a boat cramming into small bunker rooms with many people they don’t know If one person is sick when getting on, everyone will end up sick. The early stages of any disease do not show symptoms and the disease can spread very rapidly without anyone knowing who has it and doesn’t. Small pox spread rapidly on the boat trips to and from Cana...
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...he First Nation’s interest in trading spread from the east to the west. The Europeans traveled westward to find more tradable goods. As the Europeans went west and created towns they also found more of what they wanted; Furs and foods. The European explorers returned to Europe rich from furs and other traded goods. All in all the Europeans were intrigued to travel westerly because of the trading.
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