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The Fur Trade New France's Great Mistake
Title: The Fur Trade New France's Great Mistake
Category: History
Details: Words: 1276 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Fur Trade New France's Great Mistake
The furtrade: New France's greatest mistake
The fur trade began as a by-product of the fishing industry and slowly blossomed into the French colony of New France. The French concentrated the fur trade along the Atlantic coastline and soon developed a good trading relationship with their business partners: the Natives (Origins, 41). The Indians were the people hunted and trapped the beaver and brought the final product to the Europeans. The relationship was very prosperous for …showed first 75 words of 1276 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1276 total…of unity or cohesiveness. France had hopes that their St. Lawerence colony would become part of their mercantilist plan but soon turned into a weak link in their chain of colonization. New France in a way became to exploit France whether its was unintentional or not. While the nature of the fur trade helped in the British conquest, the question still remains: would have a cohesive, compact New France been able to resist Britsh invasion?
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