Hudson Bay Company Research Paper

The Hudson Bay Company (HBC) was created and developed North America and in doing so were the people who weren’t native to deal with the aboriginal people. Was this beneficial to the aboriginal people ways and culture and did it create stability for them? In my personal opinion I don’t believe so, as it lead them down a path of near destruction. I believe that the European messed with them and used them for their own personal gain. The Aboriginal people would have been perfectly fine without the Europeans. If it’s not broke- don’t try fixing it. In 1670 the Hudson Bay Company came to North America with the plans to exploit the fur trade with the help of first nation’s people. Though the aboriginals did receive many use full tools like rifles, knives pots and pans this lead them down a road of losing their culture and way of life, of living off the land. With these newly found tools that made their lives easier they became softer and lost a lot of their
The fur traders (Europeans) believe they were helping the tribes by supplying them with these tools and trinkets but actually were adding fuel to the fire. Tribes now began fight amongst each other plus adding on to the fact that they now have weapons, that didn’t help with the death ratio. Because of the want for these new tools, it changed the aboriginal’s way of life. They began harvesting animals at a faster rate driving some close to extinction which was not exactly in the original beliefs. Aboriginal’s people had survived for thousands of years by maintaining nature’s balance and their harmony with the land. But now with the wants and needs for these fascinating objects like tools , they drove themselves to pretty much chaos. They had to learn to adapt to the Europeans coming into their home