Chaptre 9 Flashcards
Considerable?
Quite large
Prejudice?
A pre held opinions or feeling, independent of experience, a unfavourable bias.
Corpse?
A dead body
Navigation?
The ice on the lakes and rivers would have melted.
To send down?
Down refers to the east, where life was more settle than in the west.
Palatable?
Edible
Air?
Melody
Provisions?
Supplies of food and equipment.
Propriety?
Good behaviours and manners.
Rational?
Based on reason.
Clothier?
A maker or seller of clothes or cloth.
Shellacks?
A kind of varnish.
Entrepreneur?
One who carries out an enterprise
To mediate?
To act between parties to bring about an agreement.
Insanity?
Mental illness.
Economic imperialists?
Imperialism is the domination of one country by another, politically, economically, or culture. Economic imperialism refers to economic domination.
Capitalist?
A person with capital, or money to invest.
Rupert’s land?
The territory given to the HBC
Mouth?
The part of a river where it’s water empty into another body of water.
Depot?
A storehouse.
Cooperage?
A place to make barrels and casks.
Smithy?
A place where a blacksmith works.
Health?
A toast drunk in a persons honour.
Want of?
Lack of.
Heir?
One who inherits.
League?
An old measure of distance normally equals to about 5 kilometres.
Overhead?
The costs of running a business.
Navigational instruments?
Sextant, compass, telescope, time piece and other instruments to measure the locations of the sun and stars with reference to the horizon and the time of day.
Mariners?
Sailors.
Dentalia?
Narrow tusk shells for the west coast of Vancouver island, a sign of high status among the native peoples of BC
Coastline mapping?
Mapping the edge of the land next to the sea.
Epic?
Heroic
To circumnavigate?
To sail around the world.
Midden?
A refuse heap.
Country wife?
A wife married after the customs of the country which were a blend of both European and native peoples marriage rites.
Saga mite?
A staple food made from ground corn.
To dress
To prepare raw furs for use.
Margin?
The difference between the cost and selling prince.
Philanthropist?
A person who uses his or her money to help others.
Dictator?
A person with absolute authority.
Name three things fur was used for?
Bedding, trims on clothes, hats ect
What was the relationship like between the Europeans and native pele in this time frame?
Their relationship was equal. The Europeans did not want to take over the land or change their spirituality because there was mutual dependency.
Who did the natives mediate fights about fur trade?
The Europeans VS the Europeans.
Why didn’t the Europeans takeover the trade roots from the First Nations if they knew them?
So mo old blood wars would stir up.
Who took over the fur trade after New France fell?
By the Scottish and American entrepreneurs.
When was the north west company formed and by who?
By the Scottish and British in 1783
Who benefited from the rivalry between the Hudson’s bay and North west company’s?
The native because they could play one company agonist each other to get more valuable trading items.
Were the fur traders colonist?
No, they hadn’t intensions to colonize.
If the Europeans didn’t want to settle permanent what were they called?
Economic imperialists, they just wanted to take profit from the land.
In 1669 who prep owed a business deal with the British and what was it?
Two of the best coure de bois, Pierre radisson and Médart de Groseilliers visited London proposing that a trading post in England based on the Hudson’s bay company.
Who was radisson?
He was a French coure de bois who was captured by Mohawk for a number of years. He escaped and was recaptured. Finally escaped after being torch urged for many years.
Groseilliers?
He had learned from the Huron of untouched lands north of Lake Superior. He was also a French coure de bois.
Who traveled north with Groseiller and Radisson? And what year?
In 1659 with the Cree
What did the government of New France do with the furs Groseilliers and padisson got the the new land up north?
The took them away.
