Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in North Dakota: Fort Union Trading Post
Most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri until 1867. Visitors included John James Audubon, George Catlin, Father Pierre DeSmet, Sitting Bull, Karl Bodmer, and Jim Bridger.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Family Life
Article looks at Metis family life from fur trade days on. Includes discussion questions and a bibliography. The document is sixty-six pages.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Educational Life
Essay looks at the history of Metis education since the fur trade days. Includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Farmers
Article looks at Metis agriculture from fur trade days on. Includes discussion questions, teaching ideas and a bibliography.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Fortune and Failures in Fur [Pdf]
One of the things economists do is to study the relationship between the supply of products being sold on the market, the demand for products by consumers, and the price of products. They look at how price is determined by the...
Curated OER
Crow Wing Trail
The Crow Wing Trail was an important fur trading route that played a large role in the Pemmican Wars. This website has photos from the 1870s and explains why the route was important. The exact location is mapped from Winnipeg to...
Curated OER
Crow Wing Trail
The Crow Wing Trail was an important fur trading route that played a large role in the Pemmican Wars. This website has photos from the 1870s and explains why the route was important. The exact location is mapped from Winnipeg to...
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Nicolas Perrot
Nicolas Perrot arrived in Wisconsin in the 1600s as a fur trader and an explorer, claiming much of the land for France. He established trading posts along the Mississippi and strengthened the French position against the Iroquois. A link...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Abenaki Economy
This reference introduces the Abenaki tribe located in Northeast America. Read about their subsistence system, industrial arts, trade, division of labor, and land tenure.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Metis Cultural Museum: Cumberland House
Links to a Adobe Reader PDF document that outlines the history associated with Cumberland House in Saskatchewan, with a slight focus on Metis peoples. Extremely detailed, the thirty pages include excellent maps and charts easily...
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company: His Highness Prince Rupert of the Rhine, First Governor of Hbc
Prince Rupert, Cousin to Charles ll, was the first governor of the Hudson Bay Company. This biography of his life includes some information on his connection with Radisson and des Groseilliers.
PBS
Empire of the Bay: George Simpson
The significance of George Simpson within the Hudson's Bay company is explored in this biography provided by PBS.
PBS
Empire of the Bay: Pierre Le Moyne D'iberville
Learn about Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, a French-Canadian naval hero, and his place in Canadian history.
Other
Toronto Public Library: Frozen Ocean: Hudson Bay and the Hudson's Bay Company
Presents historical images and maps of the area that the Hudson's Bay Company controlled.
Other
New York State Museum: Colonial Albany
Provides information about life in the colonial village of Albany. Includes many resources about important structures, happenings, and people. A great resource for information on colonial America as a whole.
Other
The Weekly South Dakotan: South Dakota History for 4th Grade
From the very beginning and through the twentieth century, this comprehensive collection of lessons will enrich students studying the history in between and the effects on South Dakota.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
After reading a section of a chapter on "Colonial Societies," students will be able to compare and contrast the development and character of the French and Dutch colonies in North America and discuss their economies.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: A Short History of Wisconsin
This collection of five essays on the history of Wisconsin is not as short as its name might indicate. It spans from the prehistory times of First Peoples up to the present, highlighting key events and people, and supplemented by many...
Other
American Journeys: French and English Approaches to Exploration [Pdf]
A lengthy lesson plan that examines French and English approaches to exploration and colonization in reference to religious factors. Using primary sources from French missionary Gabriel Sagard and Wiliam Bradford, first governor of...
Library of Congress
Loc: Global Gateway: Meeting of Frontiers
From cossacks to cowboys, this Library of Congress special online collection looks at American westward exploration and expansion, and Russia's eastward reach into and conquest of Siberia. Includes historical information and timelines,...
Curated OER
Graphical Element: Trading Ceremony at York Factory
Native groups were important in the fur trade. Furs would be collected through trapping and trade before being taken to the trading posts in early summer.
Curated OER
Etc: West Indians Trading Posts & Routes of Travel, 1820 1835
Western Indians trading posts and routes of travel 1820-1835, based on Chittenden's American Fur Trade.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Problem of Expansion
With the end of the Revolution, the United States again had to face the old unsolved Western question -- the problem of expansion, with its complications of land, fur trade, Indians, settlement and local government. Lured by the richest...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Busy Beavers
Amy Himes's article, "At the Zoo: Busy Beavers" focuses on the North American Beaver and covers topics such as The Fur Trade and Nose to Tail. Pictures are also provided.