Chapter 4 - Competition for the Fur Trade
For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Teacher resource guide.
Discusses the history of Indigenous engagement with media and telecommunication policy and looks at how a consortium composed of academic researchers and First Nations technology organizations used hearings held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to bring three issues to the forefront: open access to transport networks; subsidy support for First Nations community networks; and the need for consultation with Indigenous communities about infrastructure development and service upgrades taking place in their territories.
Statistics on characteristics of prison population, type of offences committed, use of alcohol, sentencing and recidivism rates.
Primary topic is negotiations between the British government and the Hudson's Bay Company for the cession of of the Company's rights back to the Crown and the Government of Canada's desire to annex the lands granted in the Charter of the Company.
Source: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 4th Sess, 1865 at 44-57.