Western Canada 1760 – 1860

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/05/2009

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction.
The Natives before the discovery of the West by the Europeans.
1. The economy of the native inhabitants.
2. The nature of the Indian economy.
3. The fur trade of the northern peripheries.
4. Competition: Always a mixed blessing.
One key development in the settlement of the West.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

The lure of the western frontier has played a major part in nation-building in North America. During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska was explored, surveyed and mapped by Spanish, English, American and Russian seafarers. Details of the Artic coastline were added to early maps as explorers searched for a Northwest Passage from Europe to China. Two things motivated these early explorers. One was the quest for a direct route from Europe to the riches of the Orient. The other, once the extent of the Americas was known, was the search for gold, silver, furs and other wealth in the New World itself. European exploration of canada's West began in the late 1600s. (Bothwell, 2006). Over the next century and a half, fur traders, geographers, missionaries and scientific explorers would travel across the Prairies, through the Rocky Mountains, and along the Pacific coast, identifying resources, recording their impressions of the land and its people, and making maps.