AnswersDriveOrigins. French explorer Jacques Cartier in his three voyages into the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 1530s and 1540s conducted some of the earliest fur trading between European and First Nations peoples associated with sixteenth century and later explorations in North America.
What did the French trade for fur?
Early Trade. The first Europeans to purchase furs from Indians were French and English fishermen who, during the 1500s, fished off the coast of northeastern Canada and occasionally traded with the Indians. In exchange, the Indians received European-manufactured goods such as guns, metal cooking utensils, and cloth.
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How did the fur trade start?
The fur trade began in the 1500's as an exchange between Indians and Europeans. The Indians traded furs for such goods as tools and weapons. Beaver fur, which was used in Europe to make felt hats, became the most valuable of these furs.
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What led to the decline of the fur trade?
Several different conflicts caused the decline of the fur trading industry. The rivalry for trapping areas, between the French and the British was one of them. The Indians also competed with these groups as they wanted the European goods for their own furs. They relied on the Indians for informantion and help.
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Why did the fur trade happen?
The fur trade in Canada began because many Europeans wanted these furs. They became partners in the fur trade with the Aboriginal Peoples. The French built trading posts on the St. Lawrence River and traded with Aboriginal Peoples who came to their posts with furs.
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How much is a lynx fur worth?
Fur prices fluctuate, and between 2004 and 2009 the average value of a lynx pelt ranged from $104 to more than $300. In the 2008–09 season, the average price paid was $104, and the total value $745,650, making lynx the most important furbearer in the state.
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What foods were available to the fur traders?
The Montreal voyageurs of the east ate a diet of corn mush, pea soup, and pork fat. But buffalo was a staple diet for the voyageurs of the interior. Fur posts on the northern plains harvested huge quantities of buffalo with the help of the Indians. Tons of pemmican were made from the buffalo meat.
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How many animals are killed each year for their fur?
Each year, more than 1 billion rabbits and 50 million other animals -- including foxes, seals, mink and dogs -- are raised on fur farms or trapped in the wild and killed for their pelts. Because much of the fur is imported from China and other countries with poor regulation, it is often mislabeled as "faux."
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Why was the beaver pelts so valuable?
As a result, beaver felt keeps it's shape under rough handling and successive wettings, and it does so better that any felt made from wool or other pelts. Cheaper hats, such as those worn by soldiers, combined beaver, horse, and rabbit fur in order to make them less expensive to manufacture.
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What was the fur trade in North America?
The Trade in European Goods. Indians were the primary agents in the North American commercial fur trade. It was they who hunted the animals, and transported and traded the pelts or skins to European intermediaries. The exchange was a voluntary.
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When was the French fur trade?
Fur Trade. In the early 17th century, French traders began to use Huron (or Wyandot) middlemen to trade with the Native peoples in the Great Lakes region.
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When did the Beaver Wars take place?
The French and Iroquois Wars (also called the Iroquois Wars or the Beaver Wars) were an intermittent series of conflicts fought in the late 17th century in eastern North America, in which the Iroquois sought to expand their territory and take control of the role of middleman in the fur trade between the French and the
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What are the pelts in the revenant?
A pelt is an animal's skin, fur and all. If you are wearing a fur coat, you are really wearing a pelt (hate to break it to you). Another meaning of pelt is to throw something at someone — over and over again. So pelts were the skin of animals they carry on their back.
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Why did the British begin to win the war after 1758?
It tried to prevent them from moving west in search of land. They thought they had won the right to settle in the Ohio valley because they fought in the French and Indian War. Why did the British begin to win the war after 1758? They sent the best generals to America and paid the colonial troops for fighting.
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What is a beaver pelts?
Beaver pelts were an integral part of the early Canadian fur trade economy. Aboriginal and European hunters supplied trade networks that capitalized on the popularity of beaver pelts in European markets.
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What do they do with beaver pelts?
The beaver conservation movement began in the late 1930s with the writings and lectures of Grey Owl. Today, more than 135,000 beavers are killed specifically for their fur each year. While their pelts are used for garments, many people do not know that beaver pelts are commonly used for felting, especially for hats.
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How fast do beavers swim?
American beaver kits can swim 24 hours after birth. Beavers have bodies that are made for the water. Their rudder-like tail and webbed feel propel them through the water at 5 mph (8 kph). They can also stay under water for around 15 minutes at a time, according to National Geographic.
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What are beavers used for?
Beavers are known for building dams, canals, and lodges (homes). This population decline is the result of extensive hunting for fur, for glands used as medicine and perfume, and because the beavers' harvesting of trees and flooding of waterways may interfere with other land uses.
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Why are a beaver's teeth orange?
North American Beavers are smaller than their European cousins but look very similar. Each have short faces with large incisors meant for chewing and cutting wood. The teeth appear orange-yellow in color, because the thick enamel contains iron deposits which keep the enamel strong.
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Where does a beaver sleep?
Beavers also eat bark and small twigs, and store small sections of logs underwater near I their lodge to eat later. Habits: Beavers mostly sleep during the day and are awake at night, when you are sleeping. But, they are sometimes seen during the day. Families of beavers, live together.
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What do you call a group of beavers?
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