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__**Main Points**__ Following the war of [|1812]:
 * HBC was a large trading company that held large monopolies over trading land


 * Emigrants started coming to Canada for rich, inexpensive farmland
 * Quebec continued steady population and economic growth
 * Maritimes used as trading posts
 * resourceful- lots of fish
 * well settled and stable

Land for the Fur Trade:
 * HBC (Hudson’s bay company) controlled all of the land that had rivers that drained into Hudson’s bay. Northwest trading company also fought for territory
 * Russia, America and even Spain controlled parts of B.C. for a while
 * Pioneers wanted to develop towns with working infrastructure (schools shops ex.) and the natives, Métis, and fur traders wanted to keep all of the land devoted to fur trading
 * was harder to settle if not connected to the fur trade
 * HBC was the largest fur trading company, and had a monopoly in the western part of Canada. Its business was threatened by the French until the [|fall of New France] in 1763

Check your understanding: Why were the maritime provinces used as trading posts? Why was the HBC (Hudson's Bay Company) important? Which two companies fought for territory in the times of the fur trade?

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