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Money, Fashion and Power

To what extent did money, fashion and power drive the fur trade?


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 7.1.4.1 - How did the First Nations, French, British and Métis peoples interact with each other as participants in the fur trade? (TCC, ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 7.1.4.2 - How did the fur trade contribute to the foundations of the economy in North America? (ER, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 7.1.4.3 - How was Britain's interest in the fur trade different from that of New France? (TCC, ER, GC)
Specific Outcome 7.1.4.4 - How was economic development in New France impacted by the changing policies of the French Royal Government? (PADM, ER, GC, TCC)
Specific Outcome 7.1.4.5 - What was the role of mercantilism before and after the 1763 Treaty of Paris? (ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.2 - Students will evaluate, critically, ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.4 - Students will re-evaluate personal opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 7.S.1.5 - Students will generate creative ideas and strategies in individual and group activities
Specific Outcome 7.S.2.1 - Students will analyze historical issues to form or support an opinion
Specific Outcome 7.S.2.3 - Students will explain the historical contexts of key events of a given time period
Specific Outcome 7.S.2.4 - Students will distinguish cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including the long- and short-term causal relations of events
Specific Outcome 7.S.2.5 - Students will create a simulation or a model, using technology that permits the making of inferences
Specific Outcome 7.S.4.2 - Students will propose and apply new ideas and strategies, supported with facts and reasons, to contribute to problem solving and decision making
Specific Outcome 7.S.8.1 - Students will communicate information in a clear, persuasive and engaging manner, through written and oral means
Specific Outcome 7.S.8.5 - Students will offer reasoned comments related to a topic of discussion
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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