Canada Moves West Exploration

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Canada Moves WestExploration
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Exploration, Western Interior
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A. Exploration

• Opening the West
• To increase fur trading territories HBC and NWC
  explored and mapped Canada (terra incognito)
• Famous NWC explorers
• Alexander Mackenzie first European to cross
  Canada by land
• Simon Fraser and David Thompson continued to map
  more of New Caledonia (B.C.)
• Fur Trade Competition
• HBC and NWC mapped Canadas west
• European explorers from Spain, Russia, Britain
  and America explored the Pacific coast

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• Coastal Native Relations
• coastal native peoples traded valuable sea otter
  pelts with explorers
• sea otter population nearly decimated by fur
  trade
• explorers traded furs in China for silks, spices
  and valuables
• brought natives and non-natives into immediate
  and close contact
• profound ramifications for both peoples
• Coastal Exploration
• English explorers Cook and Vancouver mapped
  Pacific coast of North America
• claimed much of that land for England

Sea otter's dense fur has up to 100,000 hairs per
square centimeter
James Cook