Furs were so valuable because of the harsh weather conditions and the furs kept everybody warm.
.....and cause we are awesome.
Beaver fur was so valuable because back in time they would trade furs to have basic needs.
Because bever hats and capes were considered high fashion!
Beaver pelts
a place where Native Americans could bring furs to trade for useful items like beads, blankets, pots, knives... The traders would then load the furs onto ships and send them back to there home county.
The fur trade did not so much change Canada, as create Canada. Furs were the first resource sold internationally, the first "gold" that brought Europeans, and then the world to Canada.
becaus many people wanted furs in other countries
They didn't trade with Native Americans anything that was valuable. Trade beads were used for the furs that were trapped.
His first visits to French Canada were to trade furs, but on the second voyage he sought new areas to colonize along the Atlantic coast.
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For the fertile and rich soil, great for farming, as well as to trade furs with the natives.
In the sixteenth century, cod fishermen began trading for furs, especially at Tadoussac.
Native Americans (or First Nations as they are called in Canada) traded furs for iron pots and tools (knives, hatchets chisels), clothing, blankets, guns, black powder, tobacco