USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The French and British often competed in the fur trade. Although New France often lost money, the French did not want to lose the fur trade to their imperial rivals, the English. The French, who had far fewer colonists than the English, created and maintained an amicable relationship with the Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-2: -These relations sustained the business of the fur trade. The French traded iron tools, kettles, wool blankets and other supplies for the furs to make hats, while Native peoples exchanged furs for goods from around the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Origins. French explorer Jacques Cartier in his three voyages into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the 1530s and 1540s conducted some of the earliest fur trading between European and First Nations peoples associated with 16th century and later explorations in North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -The fur trade started because of a fashion craze in Europe during the 17th century. Europeans wanted to wear felt hats made of beaver fur. The most important players in the early fur trade were Indigenous peoples and the French. The French gave European goods to Indigenous people in exchange for beaver pelts.