In these activities students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the role of Black fur traders. Close ad. Canada's History on your doorstep.
Subscribe Now. Fur Trade Educational Package. Download the PDF. Our Thanks. Also available in French. The real business started the next day. The major trade goods were woollen blankets, cotton and linen cloth, metal goods, firearms and fishing gear. Tobacco, alcohol, trade jewellery and other luxury items accounted for only ten percent of the goods traded.
The fur traders received far more than furs from Native people. They acquired valuable knowledge and skills for survival in the wilderness. This was particularly true of the coureurs des bois , who adopted Native ways, including the clothing, food, lodging, modes of transportation, languages, and customs.
Back to Exhibitions. Canada Hall The Fur Trade During the French regime , the fur trade was the major commercial activity that sustained the colony. They also made and sold hand-worked items such as sashes and quilts. Voyageurs were the main labour force of the Montreal-based fur trade system. Few roads made by people existed, making the rivers the best way of connecting communities. The voyageurs used the river systems to haul furs and goods for trading purposes. From the s until the merger, most voyageurs were French-Canadians from Lower Canada now the southern portion of Quebec and to a lesser extent Iroquois Haudenosaunee and Algonquins Anishinaabeg.
Carrying on the voyageur way of life, they paddled transport canoes and York boats in the northern parts of the present-day Prairie provinces. They also unloaded freight canoes and York boats. In some places, a river would have too many rapids, or it was too narrow for boats to travel upon.
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