The fur trade and the opening of Canada [dvd]
Contributor(s): Purvis, Ron | Royal York Communications | Epoch Multimedia.
Material type:
Visual materialSeries: The Canadian history series, 1400-1867. Publisher: [Canada] : Epoch Multimedia, Inc., c2004Description: 1 videodisc (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.Subject(s): Fur trade -- Canada | Fur trade -- Canada -- History | Canada -- History | Canada -- Discovery and exploration | CANADIAN HISTORY (GRADES K-12) | INDIGENOUS EDUCATIONDDC classification: D 971 F87 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| DVD | Manitoba School for the Deaf Library | D 971 F87 (Browse shelf) | Available | cc-no | S5176 |
"Royal York Communications" --Video program.
Also known as: The fur trade and the opening of Canada, 1400-1867.
Executive producer, Brian McClean ; producer/director, Cathy Squires ; writer, Cathy Squires.
Narrator, Ron Purvis.
Designed to introduce viewers to the role of the fur trade in Canadian history from 1400 to 1867. Details the impact of the fur trade on exploration, encounters of European explorers with the Native populations of future Canada, reasons for the popularity of beaver fur in Europe and the relationship between Indian warfare, the war between the French and the British, and the expanding fur trade. Also reveals the circumstances which gave rise to the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company, and the events which led to their eventual merger.
Grades 4-8.
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