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Who are the Voyageurs in Canada?
Voyageurs were independent contractors, workers or minor partners in companies involved in the fur trade. They were licensed to transport goods to trading posts and were usually forbidden to do any trading of their own. The fur trade changed over the years, as did the groups of men working in it.
What is the difference between a coureur de bois and a voyageur?
What is the difference between the coureurs des bois and the voyageurs? The coureurs des bois were active during the French Regime. They were small businessmen trapping fur animals and trading. The voyageurs, for their part, were hired hands.
What did Voyageurs do in the winter?
Some voyageurs stayed in the back country over the winter and transported the trade goods from the posts to farther away French outposts. These men were known as the hivernants (winterers). They also helped negotiate trade in indigenous communities.
Who were the founders of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Médard des Groseilliers
Hudson’s Bay Company/Founders
French traders Médard Chouart des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson were the first to propose a trading company to reach the interior of the continent via Hudson Bay and gain easier access to the fur resources of the interior (see Fur Industry).
What did French fur traders wear?
“Buckskin coat and leggings, and wearing a cap of coon fur with the tail attached.” Voyageurs and coureurs des bois wore similar clothing, for the most part. Their fashion choices separate overtime namely because the coureurs des bois were no longer around and the trading companies took over.
How did voyageurs survive?
They were strong and healthy men who could withstand harsh weather conditions and maintain a very fast paddling pace. The route from Montreal to Lake Superior and back would take 12 to 16 weeks. The men paddled from sunrise to sunset, heaving back-breaking packs of trade goods and furs over grueling portages.
How old was Henry Currier when he arrived in Nova Scotia?
Esq. Henry Currier U.E. (b. 1770), aged 13 who arrived at Port Roseway [Shelburne], Nova Scotia on October 26, 1783 was passenger number 128 aboard the ship “HMS Clinon”, picked up on September 20, 1783 at East River, New York [2] Moody Currier (1806-1898), American lawyer, banker, generous patron of the arts, and Republican politician
What did the La Verendrye family do in Manitoba?
From 1731 to 1743, the La Vérendrye family organized expeditions beyond Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. There, they set up fur trade routes with the east. Meanwhile, the Mandan Indians, situated west of the Great Lakes, began to trade horseswhich were descended from those originally brought into Texas by the Spanish.
Where did the first settlers of Canada settle?
Because of the lack of job opportunities, thousands of Loyalists set out westward, eventually settling all along the shores of the St. Lawrence River and the northern shores of Lake Ontario all the way to Niagara. Many permanent settlements arose from these initial settlers. 1785 The City of Saint John, New Brunswickwas incorporated.
Who was Jean Baptiste Chartier married to in Canada?
It has been many years, but I have found most of the online information about Jean Baptiste Chartier (John Carter) and the Chartier/Carter, family in Canada. I know about John/Jean’s marriage to Marie Courtemanche and most of the ancestry as I have spoken many years ago to Vernon Chartier who at the time, was the Chartier family historian.