Problem
i. What do maps tell us about the environment and about European conceptions of land in the North West?
ii. What is Lord Selkirk's opinion of the way that the nwc ran their business? Did he admire them or reject their way of doing things?
iii. Thinking about both the primary and secondary documents, what sort of personality type do you think might be suitable for a career in the fur trade during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
iv. Why were Kahnawake men desirable fur trade participants for French traders? What reasons did Kahnawake men have for taking part in the trade?
v. What role did Indigenous women play in fostering the fur trade? Could the fur trade have developed as it did without Indigenous female participation?