sir alexander mackenzie was the explorer who opened up the fur trade route to the great lakes.
sir alexander mackenzie was the explorer who opened up the fur trade route to the great lakes.
who was the explorer who opened up the fur trade route to the great lakes?
sir alexander mackenzie
section::::history.:location on fur trade route.









































the traditional land of the beaver lake cree nation was on the historical voyageur route that linked the rich athabaskan region to hudson bay. david thompson and george simpson used the fur-trade route via the beaver river from the main methye portage route that reached the athabasca river. david thompson founded a trading post on red deers lake now known as lac la biche in 1798-99 and overwintered there, entering copious notes in his diary on the "nahathaway" (cree), their customs, traditions and the western boreal forest including this passage,
beaver lake cree nation
more recently, the american anthropologist carol devens in her 1992 book "countering colonization: native american women and the great lakes missions 1630–1900" followed leacock by arguing that exposure to the patriarchal values of "ancien regime" france together with the ability to collect "surplus goods" made possible by the fur trade had turned the egalitarian ojibwa society into unequal society where women did not count for much. white wrote that an examination of the contemporary sources would suggest the fur trade had in fact empowered and strengthened the role of ojibwa women who played a very important role in the fur trade, and it was the decline of the fur trade which had led to the decline of status of ojibwa women.
north american fur trade