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Part 1:

1) Complete the chart below (Horizons – Chapter 4 – pages 126-128):

Hudson’s Bay Company Northwest CompanyHow did it start? Grosselier and Radisson get

proof to furs to get a charter from Charles ll 1670

Scottish and American businessmen consolidate a number of small trading businesses to compete against HBC in 1783

Where does it operate? Rupert Land – all rivers that drain into the Hudson’s Bay

Montreal to the Pacific around Rupert’s Land

What was it like working for the company?

Boring during winter (except Christmas)

Tough journeys on riversPortagesHeavy liftingSome relied on pemmican

What are the advantages this company had over the other?Explain why these are advantages

Short turnaround for trading goodsTrading ceremonies with Aboriginals

Trading directly with Aboriginals getting the better quality furs

Find a quote/image that confirms any of the above

Source:(author, title, year written/published, URL)

Ballantine, R. M. (Robert Michael), Hudson Bay, or, Everyday life in the wilds of North America [microform] : during six years' residence in the territories of the Hon. Hudson Bay Company, 1879, http://archive.org/stream/cihm_26409#page/n53/mode/2up

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “This company obtained a charter from Charles II, granting to them and their successors, under the name of “The governor and company of adventures trading into Hudson’s Bay,” the sole right of trading on all the country watered by rivers flowing into Hudson’s Bay” Quote 2: “The charter also authorized them to build and fit out men-of-war, establish forts, prevent any other company from carrying on trade with the natives in their territories”

Interpretation: Quote 1: This quote is saying that Charles II has given the Hudson Bay company a charter saying that they have the right of trading in all the countries that have rivers flowing into Hudson’s Bay.Quote 2: This quote is saying that the charter states no other companies can’t work with the Natives on their territory and to also establish forts.

How might this affect a character or a plot?

Quote 1: If a character happens to be where those rivers are he/she won’t be able to buy or trade with the Northwest Company.Quote 2: If there were to be a worker in another company

trying to work with a native in the Hudson’s Bay company territory they will be going against the charter and might be punished.

2) What do Voyageurs do and what was their life like (Horizons – Chapter 4 – page 120)?

Voyageurs transport goods and passengers to and from trading posts. The Voyageurs lives were pretty difficult because of all the travelling they had to do. The rough journey on rivers, heavy lifting, relying on pemmican at times, and also portaging. Portaging was very difficult because they would have to carry the canoe and all the goods to another river that goes to the place they need to.



Ballantine, R. M. (Robert Michael), Hudson Bay, or, Everyday life in the wilds of North America [microform] : during six years' residence in the territories of the Hon. Hudson Bay Company, 1879, http://archive.org/stream/cihm_26409#page/n103/mode/2up

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “These carrying places are called portages and between York Factory and Red River there are upwards of thirty-six of various lengths.”Quote 2: “Our boat, which was counterpart of the rest, was long, broad, and shallow, capable of carrying forty hundredweight, and nine men, besides three or four passengers, with provisions for themselves and the crew.”

Interpretation: Quote 1: This quote is saying that there are many portages on the route that they are taking (up to thirty six) and all are at different lengths.Quote 2: This quote is saying that the boat they are taking can hold A LOT of weight which includes the luggage and all the men, also it states the details of the boat.


Quote 1: Maybe the main character would have to ride in a boat and would have to go through a portage and realize the difficulties of that job and how much work is put into working as a voyageur.Quote 2: There is a chance that the character would have to study boats for something and would have to understand all about boats in order to accomplish what he/she is trying to do.

3) Complete the chart (Horizons – Chapter 4 – page 132):

How did Aboriginals contribute to the fur trade?

That Aboriginals contributed in the fur trade by trading with the Europeans. They would trade fur for many things like weapons and etc. Aboriginals also taught the Europeans how to build canoes and taught them about snowshoes. They would supply food for some Voyageurs sometimes and

delivered goods for HBC.How did the fur trade affect Aboriginals?

The fur trade affected the Aboriginals by creating competition amongst each other. It also completely changed their way of life from subsistence to resource extraction. European diseases decimated villages. After time passes to the 1800s, the demand for fur was waned. Also the fur trade introduced alcohol to the Aboriginals.



Thomas McCliesh, Letters From Hudson Bay, 1965, http://www.furtradestories.ca/details.cfm?content_id=94&cat_id=2&sub_cat_id=1

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “Here is not half a year's trade of cloth nor of tobacco, and a small quantity of brandy which is the only commodity in this country, for I can have more done towards the encouragement of the trade in small furs for a gallon of brandy than for forty beaver in any other goods in the factory.”Quote 2: “All those Indians that has traded with the French, nay all the Indians in general, desire that they may have such short guns as the French trades”

Interpretation: Quote 1: This quote proves that the Aboriginals traded furs with others and did not trade other things such as cloth and tobacco.Quote 2: This quote says that the Aboriginals wanted things such as weapons that the French would have and would trade for furs.


Quote 1: The character might have to help make furs and might make them very poorly so the Europeans get furious.Quote 2: It is possible that the character (who would be with the aboriginals) would get an amazing offer for furs and could receive lots of money and very advanced weapons that can help the aboriginals but he declines because he doesn’t know that the aboriginals want the weapons which could lead to consequences.

4) In what ways were Aboriginal women vital to the fur trade? (Horizons – Chapter 4 – page 134)?

Aboriginal women were important in the fur trade because they acted as guides and created trade ties by marrying a fur trader in NWC. They also made many valuable things like traps, snow shoes, moccasins, pemmican bags with buffalo hide, pemmican, and gathered food.



Johnson, Alice M. (ed.) Saskatchewan Journals and Correspondence : Edmonton House 1795-1800, Chesterfield House 1800-1802. Hudson's Bay Record Society : London, 1967.

Quote/Image: “the women are deserving of some encouragement and indulgence from your Honors, they clean and put into a state of preservation all Beavr. and Otter skins brought by the Indians undried and in bad Condition. They prepare Line for Snow shoes and knit them also without which your Honors servants could not give efficient opposition to the Canadian traders they make Leather shoes for the men who are obliged to travel about in search of Indians and furs and are usefull in a variety of other instances, in short they are Virtually your Honors Servants”

Interpretation: This quote is saying that the women were very important in the fur trade because they technically did everything other than go out and hunt for the fur (which the men did), they cleaned and made the furs look all good and also made snowshoes for the men to walk with on snowy days.


Of the main character happens to be a male maybe he could have to work as a women because he is injured and would realize that the work of a women for the aboriginals happened to be very difficult and vital in the fur trade.

5) Describe the Metis and their society. How did they contribute to the fur trade? (Horizons – Chapter 4 – pages 138-140)?

The Metis are the children of a French Canadian fur trader and an Aboriginal. Hey are known as “mixed” people. Their culture and society developed in southern Manitoba around the 1800s. Buffalo hunting was the main way of their life, they would contribute to the fur trade by hunting buffalos and making hides and collecting their meat after they shot the buffalos with a musket. Men were the hunters while women and children had carts to collect the parts, they would settle on farms at some parts of the year.



Joseph James Hargrave, Red River, 1871, http://www.furtradestories.ca/details.cfm?content_id=65&cat_id=2&sub_cat_id=1

Quote/Image: "Conspicuous in importance amongst the annual events in the colony are the journeys made to the Plains by the Buffalo hunters at different periods of the year. The parties belonging to the summer hunt start about the beginning of June, and remain on the Plains until the beginning of August. They then return for a short time to the settlement for the purpose of trading their pemmican and dried meat.

Interpretation: This quote proves that the Metis were buffalo hunters and also proves that they took breaks throughout the year to sell their stock.

How might this affect a

Maybe the character was trying to go hunting with the Metis but accidently shoot one of the members and have to face the consequences

character or a plot?

for murder.

6) Use the space below to start brainstorming a sequence of events that incorporates all of the above into a story. Think about how one character may encounter or interact with all of the above.

-The main character is born as a Metis and has been buffalo hunting sort all his life.-He gets injured one day because he falls off his horse while hunting buffalo and broke his leg-He then goes to live with his aboriginal uncle and aunt, since he is injured he is helping the women make snowshoes and etc-His uncle needs some help to gather A LOT of fur so he volunteers to help get fur (not injured anymore)-Then him and his uncle with a couple other aboriginals have to travel somewhere with Voyageurs and face many portages on the way-Then he trades with the HBC and gets lot of weapons and other items the aboriginals have

7) Create a sketch or find images that illustrates at least one aspect in #6:

Part 2:

1) Describe the push and pull factors of Irish immigration to Canada in the 1800s:

Push Factors (In Ireland) Pull Factors (Canada)

There are many reasons why people would feel pushed out of Ireland and one big reason would be evictions. When people would buy land from absentee landlords they would slowly gain less and less crops. The thing about landlords are is that they love money and its all they want, they keep dividing the their lots to keep gaining more money from the increase of people buying them. Therefore with no money or crops to pay the rent of their lot they would be evicted. Later on they even started evicting those who can afford the rent but the landlord would jigs want more land for grazing. Another reason why they might be pushed out is from the potato famine. The famine was caused because all the potatoes were given sent to England as cash crops which made people very hungry. Plus there was a potato disease called blight which made the potato rotten and inedible without being sick. They needed to eat corn that was given from the USA. The final reason why people would want to leave Ireland was because of all the racism. Back then equality was a word only a few believed in, negroes were known as the worst, then comes the Irish, and the greatest of them all were the English.

Since many people have not been to Canada no one was aware of how life would be there. It was all just an expectation of what it would be like. People thought that it was a free country, had lots of food, and was a happy place in general. They figured that would be an amazing place to live and would be much better to I’ve there than to live in Ireland where food was running low, money was a problem, and from all the racism happening.



Quote 1: William Dunne, Friendly St Belfast?, 1846, https ://hsp.org/files/attachments/curtis_letter_1846.pdf Quote 2: Hannah Curtis, Mountmellick, 1847, https ://hsp.org/sites/hsp.org/files/attachments/curtis_letter_april_2_1847_pa ge_1.jpg

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “A good job that you father and mother and family went the time they did for there is nothing here but hardship and starvation our potatoe crop is all [ised?] all over Ireland this year”Quote 2: “amongst the people at that time was nothing to what it is at present that people are in a starving state the poor house is crowded with people and they are dying as fast as they can from 10 to 20 a day”

Interpretation: Quote 1: What this quote I saying is that it was a good thing John left because of the potato famine that occurred.Quote 2: This quote (which is similar to the first one) is talking an out how Ireland is at a bad state from all the starving people and full poor houses, also with all the people dying per day.

https://hsp.org/sites/hsp.org/files/attachments/curtis_letter_april_2_1847_page_1.jpg



https://hsp.org/files/attachments/curtis_letter_1846.pdf


Quote 1 and 2: The main character or maybe a very important character might die from starvation.

2) Describe the conditions on board coffin ships (Horizons – Chapter 2 – pages 57-58):

The conditions of the coffin ships were terrible. Before even getting on the ship you must be tested for any diseases because they would not allow a sick person to go to Canada and spread it all over the place. Once boarded you they would do attendance to see if the proper amount of people were on board the ship, the ship was very full. Everywhere you were would be very cramped and you would be squished between people very often. Since the ship would be rocking around a lot from the rough waters eating was very difficult to do, many people would slip and spill their meals and some would even vomit from all the shaking while they are eating. Not only was eating a disaster the steerage (place you sleep) was also very difficult to deal with as well. Because you were not allowed to leave the steerage at night you would have to poo and pee in a bucket at the bottom of the bed. Which later on at night would smell terrible but also spill overnight from the ships turbulence. During their voyage they would also have to stop at Grosse Isle to get another checkup for any diseases so they won’t spread it to others. Those who had disease were to stay at Grosse and eventually end up dead without any health care. I’d say that the only good thing about these coffin ships is that they serve you meals so you won’t be hungry. *Both wealthy and poor would be on the ship*



Robert Whyte, Famine Ship Diary: Journey of an Irish Coffin, 1847, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook_print.cfm?smtid=3&psid=1088

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “He wore a red flannel shirt and loose blue pilot trousers but neither shoes nor stockings. His movements were slow, except at meals, when he seemed to regain his suspended animation and it was a goodly sight to see him gulping coffee, bolting dodges of fat pork and crunching hard biscuits as ravenously as a hungry bear”Quote 2: Feeling an inclination towards squeamishness and being much more sick at heart, I retired to my stateroom and lying down upon the berth, fell into a dreamy slumber, in which I remained until aroused when I found it was late in the afternoon and tea was ready.”

Interpretation: Quote 1: This proves that both poor and wealthy people would be on the ship towards Canada, you can tell he is poor because of how he explained him eating his food.Quote 2: the quote is saying that you get very nauseous on the boat


Quote 1: Its possible that the main character meets a rich man/woman on the boat and can get something beneficial out of their relationship.Quote 2: maybe the main character is throwing up on the edge of the ship but he/she gets pushed of and is in the sea water.

3) In what ways were the Irish accepted or not accepted in Canada?

Accepted Not Accepted-Canada held a charity for the Irish immigrants and raised up a lot of money. -The Irish spoke English which complicated their relationship with the French but the French were also the ones who welcomed them the most because of their religion (Catholic)- The people of Québec started to adopt the children from Ireland because they were all put into orphanages, also keeping their Irish names.- The protestant Irish were accepted fairly well because of their religion.

-Most of the Irish were Catholic so they weren’t as accepted outside of Québec because the majority of Canada were Protestant.-Since most of the Irish went to Canada during the famine, also since a lot of them were poor and sick. Canadians were worried that they would spread diseases to them.-The Irish had such painful stereotypes from the Canadians like being lazy and drunk.



Quote 1: J. B. O’Reilly, “The Irish Famine and the Atlantic Migration to Canada”, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record 5th series, vol. 69 (October 1947), pp. 870-822, available on the Irish Emigration Database, compiled by the Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh, DIPPAM (Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration) website, http://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/records/29620 (5 December 2014).Quote 2: Quebec Mercury, 20 February 1847; see also 25 February as well as 18 & 20 March 1847 to see examples of reports indicating the amounts collected in the various existing wards.

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “In an article dated 1947, John B. O’Reilly lists contributions from Montréal, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Québec, Toronto and a few other places, which indeed amounted to a total close to £20,000(pounds)”Quote 2: “The Quebec Mercury “ upwards of £3,000 dated 20 February 1847 indicated that donations were ” and predicted that “the whole collection in Quebec, once finished, [would] exceed £3,500, and perhaps, app roach £4,000.” As was shown previously, collectors had been appointed in various localities, wards and suburbs of Quebec City and the Quebec Mercury shows that this local network of collectors was fairly successful in raising money (March 1847)

Interpretation: Quote 1: This quote is saying that many countries on Canada donated a large amount of money for the Irish

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/records/29620

Quote 2: This quote states that Québec raised quote a lot of money for the donations.


Quote 1 and 2: If the character is an Irish immigrant the charity and donations that Canada made for them will be very beneficial for him to get started on his new life.


-I’m an Irish man who felt pushed out of Ireland from the racism, famine, and being evicted from my home from that nasty absentee landlord that we all hated-I wanted to go to Canada cause is seemed that there were lots of food, and also there was so much freedom, that’s was I expected at least.-Go onto a coffin ship and have a terrible experience -Arrive in Canada and since I was a Irish Catholic I wasn’t accepted by anyone other than the citizens of Québec because we shared the same religion.


Part 3:

1) Describe the push and pull factors of American slaves immigrating to Canada in the 1800s (Horizons – Chapter 2 – pages 60):

Push Factors (In America) Pull Factors (Canada)The American slaves that came from Africa were treated horribly. They get captured with force and became slaves right away. When you were a slave you were known as nothing, they would beat you if you asked for a break, they would beat you if you said you were tired of working. It was ruthless, so bad that you couldn’t even walk outside in the town without some sort of pass or permission from your master. Another thing about being a slave in America is that if the towns people see you without any kind of permission slip they will do something called lynching. Lynching is when a mob filled with the people in the town, crowd around you (the slave) and hang you on a tree. Its gotten to such a serious event that some people would enjoy the black slave being hung. Slaves were pretty expensive so the masters would sell some of their slaves like cattle. You would put your slave up for bid and people keep bidding more and more until they just stop. Sometimes if you were such a terrible slave that they would just give up on you, they would sell you to the south. Clearly with all the punishments you get from being a slave you want to escape, so they looked towards Canada.

The slaves in America would look towards Canada for one reason. FREEDOM. Canada was a place where there is no slavery and to the slaves that was heaven. No more of being someone’s dog, no more working for extreme amounts of hours, no more being looked down at, just peace and freedom which would make a slave the happiest person in the world. Another good thing about Canada is that all the British colonies were free.



Interview with Fountain Hughes, Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949 http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/afcesn:@field(DOCID+afc9999001t9990a)

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “Now I couldn't go from here across the street, or I couldn't go through nobody's house without I have a note, or something from my master.”Quote 2: “Then if they had any bad ones, they'd sell them to the nigga traders, what they called the nigga traders. And they'd ship them down south, and sell them down south.”

Interpretation: Quote 1: this quote is saying that the slaves couldn’t leave the house with or permission without permission from your masterQuote 2: this quote is saying that if you were a bad slave and the master was tired of always beating you they would sell you to the south.


Quote 1: Maybe the main character doesn’t have a note or forgot it at the masters house and gets in a lot of trouble.Quote 2: Maybe the character gets sent to the south and makes it harder for him/her to escape to Canada

2) Describe how slaves made it to Canada/free states (Horizons – Chapter 2 – pages 60-61):

American slaves would escape by using underground railroads. The slaves were in the south side of America so they would have to go up north around where Canada is. Underground railroads wasn’t a literal term, underground was known as being secretive. The journey to freedom wasn’t easy, you couldn’t just leave your home and not expect your master to find you, you needed to be very sneaky and very fast. You would have to go around the towns to not be seen, but there were safe houses that were there to help. Unlike most people there were some people who would help the slaves go to Canada. Those people would own safe houses that the slaves could hide out at, it was a perfect scheme for the people looking for the slaves. Although there were people that would help you, you would need to be very careful because you are just easy money. They could easily trick you and get the reward on your hands. Slaves would even use code words so there would be less of a chance of someone realizing you were a runaway slave.



Pettit, Ebert M., b, Sketches in the history of the underground railroad comprising many thrilling incidents of the escape of fugitives from slavery, and the perils of those who aided them, 1879, https :// archive .org/details/sketchesinhistory00pett

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “Hurry, said he “go right in the back door.”Quote 2: “You are going to Kentucky, and I advise you to beware how you speak of these things. There are men in this place, who, had they heard that remark, would have had you in jail in a hurry. I hope you will heed my advice.”

Interpretation: Quote 1: This quote proves that safe houses existed and was used to help slaves.Quote 2: This quote proves that you couldn’t trust anyone because most people will be out to turn you on for the reward.


Quote 1: You could be running away from your master and you go hide in a trustworthy safe houseQuote 2: Maybe you trust this person but he happens to turn you in and you are punished very severally and could get injured for a long time.

https://archive.org/details/sketchesinhistory00pett

3) What was the Fugitive Slave Act and how did that affect the Underground Railroad?

The fugitive slave act was very bad for the slaves looking for a place to stay in a free state. The act allowed masters to find your runaway slave in all of America including all of the free states in the north side which made the refugees start to panic. Also the fugitive acts have allowed people to capture the free black people. So now all the slaves planning on escaping will have to travel all the way up to Canada. The reason why the fugitive act was pretty bad was because it also affected the underground railroads. Now the underground railroads was a very risky move to escape and if found you would be punished very seriously, now that the only place to go to was Canada, this meant that it would take long to get to freedom because the distance to Canada was even farther than the old free states.



Benjamin Drew, the refugee: narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada, 1856, www .inmotionaame.org/texts/viewer.cfm

Quote/Image: “There is doubtless a better state of things amongst the fugitives, than existing at the time when such a plan was proposed. The panic produced by the fugitive law, having subsided, the poor refugees have had more time allowed them to prepare for the change, and in consequence, their wants have been diminished.”

Interpretation: This quote is saying that the refugees were panicking because of the fugitive act which have led to more consequences.


You as a black slave running away might panic too much and get yourself in danger.

4) In what ways were the Black immigrants accepted or not accepted in Canada?

Accepted Not AcceptedGot good homes Good mechanicsMake a school to have black and whitesBlack teacherCompliments the refugeesDonates a little bit of money to get started in CanadaGet donations so refugees can get land for school and farmland (25 acres)Government buys land for refugeesFree acres of land and gets more land later.

Respect to buildings and teachers for the most part is on the side of the whiteColoured people education is more retarded



Benjamin Drew, the refugee: narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada, 1856, www .inmotionaame.org/texts/viewer.cfm

http://www.inmotionaame.org/texts/viewer.cfm

http://www.inmotionaame.org/texts/viewer.cfm

Quote/Image: Quote 1: “There are many good mechanics among them: nearly all have comfortable homes, and some occupy very neat and handsome houses of their own.”Quote 2: “there is a reason to fear that the progress of the coloured people in education will be very much retarded in the greater part of the province.”

Interpretation: Quote 1: this quote is saying that many of the black immigrants are very good with mechanics and have very good homes.Quote 2: this quote is saying how the black peoples education isn’t as advanced as the white peoples and is not equal to it.


Quote 1: the main character meets a black person in Canada and becomes very good friendsQuote 2: you could teach the black people in a school for a period of time.


You have been a slave ever since you were bornYou are currently 16 and can’t take all the work anymoreYou run away from your masterYou decide to go to Canada because you can’t go to a free state because the fugitive actsYou use some safe houses and finally get on a railroadYou arrive in CanadaYou get some money and land, then start living your own life


Part 4: Video Discussion

1) What modern day events share some parallels with the fur trade? Explain the similarities.2) How vital were Aboriginals to the fur trade? Who is more significant to the creation of our

Canada today, the Aboriginals or the European fur traders?3) Are push (from anywhere) and pull factors (to Canada) generally the same today as it was in the

1800s? Explain why or why not with reference to the Great Migration and the Underground Railroad.

4) Is Canada more accepting of immigrants today than it was in the 1800s? Explain how you know with reference to the Great Migration and the Underground Railroad.

5) How did the fur trade and immigration in the 1800s contribute to our identity today?

Part 5 – getting the story for your pitch

Discuss the following with your partner:

1) Create an overall goal (theme) for your main character that drives the movie/game idea.

eg: revenge, love, freedom, learning a valuable lesson, finding the truth, proving yourself, etc.

2) How could the goal of your character end up with her/him interacting with all 3 settings (fur trade, slave states, Ireland)? What would be the sequence? Where will the story start and end?

3) What conflicts will get in the way of your character achieving her/his goal? Where will these happen? Could the historical research you’ve done provide any conflicts?

4) How does your character achieve his/her goal? 5) How can you make the ending exciting and impactful?6) How can you incorporate all the checklist items into the story to make it plausible or realistic?

Part 6 – what to present:

1) Hook your audience with the concept of the film/game – what makes it special?2) Give the general plot:

a. Intro - How does the film/game start? How is your character’s goal set up?b. Rising Action – What conflicts get in the way of your character achieving his/her goal?c. Climax – How does the goal get achieved (or not)?d. Falling Action/ Conclusion – How will you wrap up the film/game?

3) Explain how each checklist term will be incorporated into your film/game. a. Provide images to help clarify your descriptionb. Explain why you’ve incorporated the term the way you did (reference your primary

evidence)4) Conclude with reminding the audience what is special about your idea.

*Remember, SELL your idea to the audience.

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