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1. 2. 3. Follow all the instructions. Cite answer by using a footnote: CTRL+ALT+F, like the little 1 on the end1 Find the answers online. If you are stuck on the HBC site Qs, skip to the Google search portion and come back later Submit DOCUMENT_INITIALS.doc by email to me: Phaidra.Ruck@gmail.com Or SUBMIT on the site
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Example. Change this one to what you ate for breakfast today.
Hbc point blankets in Kwakiutl Indian house at Fort Rupert, 1898 below:
Year of Lord Thomas Douglas Selkirk purchase: 1811 How much land: 74 million acres Where was it: Assiniboia (Ruperts Land) What did he want to use it for?
Year of HBC-NWC merger: 1821 Who becomes HBC governor of north department in the same year? George Simpson
Who is Thanadelthur?
What years did the HBC try to rehabilitate the beaver population?
In your own words, explain why keeping track of your links can be useful in research.
Google search Past a map of the Manitoba and Northwest Territories (1900) (Wikipedia OK) below:
Paste a picture of Chuck the Channel Cat and name where it is located:
Selkirk, Manitoba2 Find the end to this sentence, and cite the web page where you found it (in a footnote): After 1821 a group of independent free traders among the Mtis population at the RED RIVER COLONY opposed the company's monopoly rights, which had been ___________________
On March 20, 1869, the Hudson's Bay Company reluctantly, under pressure from Great Britain,___________________________
What can this tell you about the values and culture about the HBC and the early Government of Canada?
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/roadside-statues20.htm
Who owns the Bay today? (Do not cite Wikipediait is not reliable).
Find this picture of HBC kettles: Ch.3: HBC copper kettles, TMM HBC 1314-1318. Reading the next 2 paragraphs, you will come across a quote which talks about how objects and institutions influence history: More recently these have been challenged by the interpretive power of objects how effectively they represent larger themes in the economic and social history of the HBC, Manitoba, and Canada. The opportunity, and the challenge, presented by this fine collection, selected to symbolize an early twentieth century corporation, is how best to utilize it in support of defining provincial and national identity into the twenty-first century. Explain what this quote is saying in your own words.