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- The Legend of the Chasse-Galerie
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- Research life of a voyageur
- Journal entry

NWC
• Scottish and American capitalists
• Aggressive
“Montrealers”
• Built many posts throughout Rupert’s
Land.
• Intercept furs going to
HBC posts
• Used voyageurs: chosen men that travelled by canoe between posts
• Produced more explorers
• Alexander
Mackenzie/Simon
Fraser travel to the
Pacific
Similarities
• French Employees
• Relationships with
First Nations
• Traded in Rupert’s land
• Posts were community centers
• Both would have posts expanding into Rupert’s Land by 1820
• Contributed to exploring East-
West.
• Navigators, mapmakers, surveyor
HBC
• Radisson and Groseiliers
• English support
• Granted Rupert’s Land
• Posts located a the mouths of large rivers leading to
Hudson Bay and James Bay
• Wait for Natives to come to the forts
• Company ran from London
• “Factors” ran forts called factories
• Henry Kelsey/Samuel
Hearne