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Fur trading route
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Lumbar industry
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First Nations Hunting grounds
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The Alberta Regions
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Detailed explanation-1: -From the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River led the French westward through the Great Lakes, to the Mississippi valley, to Hudson Bay and James Bay, and eventually to the Lake Winnipeg basin and beyond.
Detailed explanation-2: -Native Americans traded along the waterways of present-day Minnesota and across the Great Lakes for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in the mid-1600s. For nearly 200 years afterward, European American traders exchanged manufactured goods with Native people for valuable furs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beaver pelts were in the greatest demand, but other animals such as mink, muskrat, fox and sable marten were also trapped. In the 1830s, when beaver lost its value as a staple fur, HBC maintained a profitable trade emphasizing fancy fur.