HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pierre Gaultier De Varennes, Sieur De La Vérendrye, Wyandot People, Lake Ontario
12 Jan 2017
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Thursday September 29, 2016
Lecture #4: Canadian History 2500
Furs and the French Empire
Key Points
• Wendat Confederacy
• Wendake (Huronia)
• Jesuits
• Voyagers
• Pays d’en Haut
• Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Verendrye
• River Empire
Fur trade:
• Define relationship between indigenous people and French new comers
• Jacques Cartier…was not the first person to arrive
• Eventually the two figure out how to trade
• Trade structure their relationship with indigenous and French people
• Champlain: 1608-1609 fur trade post
• First alliance French had was with the Wendat
Wendat and French Alliance
• Establishment and survival was dependent on immigration of the French into
pre existing diplomatic trade in North America
• Inhabit world with multiple excisions
• Need to establish powerful relationship with the names
• Make contact with Local indigenous people
• Wendat Confederacy:
- First sought out contact with the French
- Most powerful regional confederacy North of Lake Ontario
- Agriculturalists: traded corn for knives
• First contact in Early 1600s
• Champlain’s third voyage = 68-1610
• Wendat sought trade relationship
• Wendat, Algonquin and Innu: Had other objectives as well
• Champlain went with the three to the competing confederacy
• Battle of Lake Champlain: 1609
• French, Algonquin and Wendat raid on Mohawks
• Wendat traded with other nations further north and to the west and
collected the furs for their long houses
• French accomplished three goals
1. Access to commodity
2. Potential for finding mineral wealth
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Document Summary
Key points: wendat confederacy, wendake (huronia, voyagers. Fur trade: pierre gaultier de varennes, sieur de la verendrye, river empire, pays d"en haut. Wendat and french alliance: establishment and survival was dependent on immigration of the french into pre existing diplomatic trade in north america. Inhabit world with multiple excisions: need to establish powerful relationship with the names, make contact with local indigenous people, wendat confederacy: First sought out contact with the french. 2: seeking geographic information for the possibility of establishing a trade route to asia. Trade and military relationship with french worked to their benefit. French: encounter with cats represents understanding of the world. French missionaries shared the same belief: 1632: jesuits arrive in new france, 1634: jesuits enter wendake, 1634 1640: introduced disease epidemics strike wendat, over 50% of population would die over 6 years due to disease epidemics. Diseases: 1634: first epidemic (unknown illness) Least deadly: late 1636: second epidemic (influenza)
