Chapter 5 Vocabulary

A term used for a European or American involved in the fur trade. Often it refers to a person in charge of a trading post.

• Clerk

• Fur Trader

• Voyageur

• Hunter

A person who translates for people who speak different languages.

• Fur Trader

• Voyageur

• Interpreter

• Guide

The money gained from the sale of a good or service after all the costs needed to make the sale are subtracted from the amount received.

• Profit

• Resource

• Guide

• Pelt

A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade, including transporting beaver pelts and trade goods by canoe.

• Fur Trader

• Clerk

• Voyageur

• Interpreter

An animal skin with fur on it.

• Pelt

• Profit

• Resource

• Hunter

A person hired to help voyageurs and fur traders find their way through unfamiliar land.

• Interpreter

• Guide

• Clerk

• Hunter

A source or supply of useful material such as fur, wood or oil.

• Resource

• Pelt

• Profit

• Clerk

A person, usually a man, who spent most of his time hunting or trapping animals for food or pelts.

• Voyageur

• Hunter

• Guide

• Fur Trader

A man who managed the day to day business at a fur trading post.

• Clerk

• Fur Trader

• Interpreter

• Guide

an event at the end of the trading cycle to exchange and celebrate

• pelt

• rendezvous

• race

• income