Canada Past and Present: A Citizenship Education Guide

FUR TRADE WORKSHEET Use this worksheet to complete Activity 3: The Fur Trade in the section ‘Before Confederation’ of Canada Past and Present: A Citizenship Education Guide . The Fur Trade – False Sentences Each of these sentences is incorrect. Rewrite them with the correct information from the reading. Example: The English built close relationships with the Huron-Wendat. The French built close relationships with the Huron-Wendat. 1) Indigenous peoples traded goods to the French and British for beaver furs. 2) Many Indigenous men married English women. 3) The French allied themselves with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. 4) Coureurs des bois were licensed traders from New France. 5) European fur traders wanted beaver tails to make hats. 6) The French created the Hudson’s Bay Company. 4.