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Kitikmeot Heritage Society: Angulalik Fur Trade: Stephen Angulalik

For Students 9th - 10th
This website profiles a fur trader in the 20th Century, over a century after the merger of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies in 1821. But this website is interesting for assessing the impact of the fur trade on First Nations...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Hudson's Bay Company's Monopoly (1821 1850)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Hudson's Bay Company monopoly of the fur trade in Western Canada from 1821-1850. This Alberta Online Encyclopedia article has pictures, hot links to important terms and a Listen link that features audio from the Heritage...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Fur Trade Rivalries (1795 1821)

For Students 9th - 10th
"Fur Trade Rivalries" from the Alberta Encyclopedia Online explains why the merger in 1821 between the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company took place. It discusses the fur trade before the merger and expansion of new posts, the...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Fur Trade & Mission Sites

For Students 9th - 10th
This Alberta Online Encyclopedia offers a website devoted to fur trading and mission sites in Rupert's Land, the area that would become part of Alberta. Listing nine separate sites, there are pictures, and an audio link to the "Heritage...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Fort George and Buckingham House

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article sets the stage for the beginning of the Pemmican Wars. It explains the increasing need for pemmican because of the long supply lines between fur trading outposts and the commercial centre of Montreal. It...
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Manitoba Historical Society: The York Boat

For Students 9th - 10th
Including two pictures of York Boats, this Manitoba Historical Society web page provides interesting information on the genesis of the York Boat, and how the Hudson's Bay Company employees and agents, familiar with boats used in Orkney...
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Cypress Hills Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cypress Hills Massacre occurred in the wake of the absence of legal authority in Western Canada after the Hudson's Bay Company presence declined. The murder of thirty Assiniboine Indians by American wolf hunters helped establish the...
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Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Competitive Fur Trade (1850 1900)

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article explains that competition in the fur trade did not end after the 1821 merger of the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company. The Metis and other private traders were active with American trade companies....
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York Boats Colouring: Hbc Young Explorers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For early elementary students and teachers wanting to get involved with a York Boat exercise, the Hudson's Bay Company has this website with colouring templates, including one for York Boats.