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Beavers: Animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost
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David Thompson: fur trader, explorer, surveyor, mapmaker. Apprenticed to the HUDSON'S BAY CO in 1784, Thompson devoted most of his life to the study of geography and the practice of mapmaking. The maps, based primarily on his own explorations and observations, were the first to provide a comprehensive view of the vast western territories that became part of Canada in 1870
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Fort Vancouver: an outpost of the British Hudson's Bay Company, It basically signaled that the trip was over. This is where most people got off the Columbia River and headed south. This played a major part in the Oregon Trail. Also a place were alot of settlers settled down at., Fort Vancouver was a 19th century fur trading outpost along the Columbia River that served as the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company
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George Simpson: a Scots-Quebecer and employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). His title was Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land and the Indian Territories in British North America (now Canada) from 1821 to 1860
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Hudson's Bay Company: founded in 1670 in London, England, by a group of British merchants eager to exploit the resources of northern Canada.
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Jason Lee: Methodist missionary who established an outpost among the Chinook Indians in 1834
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John McLoughlin: supervisor of Ft. Vancouver. Helped settlers get started. "White Headed Eagle" -Indian; "Father of Oregon" - Americans, Someone who went out of his way to assist American Settlers because he saw that the Americans were going to settle the region south of the columbia river, and to reduce the competition with HBC
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitmen: was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country. Along with his wife Narcissa he started a mission in what is now southeastern Washington state in 1836, which would become a stop along the Oregon Trail. Whitman would later lead the first large party of wagon trains along the Oregon Trail, establishing it as a viable route for the thousands of emigrants who used the trail in the following decade.
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Mountain men: Men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other regions of the US
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North West Company: BRITISH: First fur company in PNW - British, called Nor'westers, Montreal, Ontario 1780's, loose organiztions to compete with HBC, David Thompson lead trade in 1807, posts by long lakes and rivers, traded with local Indians or traders
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Pacific Fur company: by 1811, had established trading posts on the Columbia. Represents the ever-growing population of Americans in Mexican California and joint British-American Oregon
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Rendezous: (v.) to meet in accordance with a plan; (n.) a meeting by agreement; a meeting place
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Rocky Mountain Fur Company: Founded in 1822 in Saint Louis established by William Ashley and Andrew Henry
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Sea otter: n. A large marine otter (Enhydra lutris) of northern Pacific coastal waters, formerly hunted for its soft, dark brown fur.
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Wilson Price Hunt: America. Fur trade. Led the 2nd US crossing of North America. Established Fort Astoria.
