Pitch Organizer
Part 1:
1) Complete the chart below (Horizons – Chapter 4 – pages 126-128):
Hudson’s Bay Company Northwest Company
How did it start? get a charter from Charles II 1670 Businessmen from Scotland and America make a lot of small trading businesses to compete against Hudson’s Bay Company
Where does it operate? Rupert’s land (the area around Hudson’s Bay Montreal to the pacific around Hudson’s bay
What was it like working for the company? Not a lot to do during the winter besides christmas Using rivers made for tough transport during the winter, more adventurous but possibly more dangerous, they also had to eat pemmican which sounds kind of disgusting
What are the advantages this company had over the other?
Explain why these are advantages Short turnaround for trading goods Trading ceremonies with aboriginals Got higher quality fur from trading with aboriginals directly.
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(author, title, year written/published, URL) Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1879, Hudson’s Bay or everyday life in the wilds of North America
Quote/Image: “This company obtained a charter from Charles II”
Interpretation: The company was able to start because the king at the time
How might this affect a character or a plot? Maybe they want to become part of this new company, because of money issues or another issue
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(author, title, year written/published, URL) Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1879, Hudson’s Bay of everyday life in the wilds of North America
Quote/Image: “The soul right of trading in all the country watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
Interpretation: They had the permits to create forts trading around Hudson’s Bay (Rupert’s Land)
How might this affect a character or a plot? If they were to start working for the Hudson’s Bay Company it would be in Rupert’s Land which was described as vast and forested
2) What do Voyageurs do and what was their life like (Horizons – Chapter 4 – page 120)?
They were the people who travelled to complete trades with the aboriginals
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(author, title, year written/published, URL) Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1879, Hudson’s Bay of everyday life in the wilds of North America
Quote/Image: “The soul right of trading in all the country watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
Interpretation: It basically indirectly said that there would be voyageurs because for anything to be traded there had to be
How might this affect a character or a plot? They might become a voyageur and take part In these trades
3) Complete the chart (Horizons – Chapter 4 – page 132):
How did Aboriginals contribute to the fur trade? They made the fur for the fur trade because it got them the supplies they needed to live, and they had furs a plenty so it wasn’t much spending for them
How did the fur trade affect Aboriginals? Positively and Negatively because it got them the supplies they needed for a time until the demand for fur went down their economy suffered
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(author, title, year written/published, URL) Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1879, Hudson’s Bay of everyday life in the wilds of North America
Quote/Image: “The Charter also authorized them to build and fit out men-of-war, establish forts, prevent any other company from carrying on trade with Natives in their territories”
Interpretation: This proves and says that there was Natives trading with the Hudson’s Bay Company, which would have an impact on economy positively or negatively, because there is swapping of goods which means there is a monetary outcome no matter what.
How might this affect a character or a plot? This Character would have contact with Aboriginal People
4) In what ways were Aboriginal women vital to the fur trade? (Horizons – Chapter 4 – page 134)?
They were married off to fur traders to make trade ties, they also were path finders if they decided to go off route which made them the only reason this all worked or else it would probably be a monopoly , they also made clothes to help out the men in the harsh environment
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(author, title, year written/published, URL) Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1879, Hudson’s Bay of everyday life in the wilds of North America
Quote/Image: “Even these are not very numerous and yet without them men would be in a sad condition, for they are the only tailors and washer-women in the country and make all the mittens, moccasins, fur caps, and deer skin coats worn in the country”
Interpretation: Well if the Men “would be sad without them” it means that Women were important to the men in the fur trade because they make the clothing that keeps the men warm and safe
How might this affect a character or a plot? He might Marry to a Native Women for the Clothes and to help out with his job
5) Describe the Metis and their society. How did they contribute to the fur trade? (Horizons – Chapter 4 – pages 138-140)?
The Metis were the offspring of aboriginal women and French Canadiens who settles around modern day Manitoba and Buffalo chasers would ride on horses and shoot them with muskets
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(author, title, year written/published, URL) JJ. Hargrave, Red River, 1871
Quote/Image: “The autumn hunters start during the month of August, and remain on the prairie until the end of October, or early in November, when they usually return bringing the fresh or “green meat,” preserved at that late season by the extreme cold. Those hunters, of whom there are many who remain on the Plains during the whole winter, employ themselves in trapping the fur-bearing animals, and hunting the buffalo for their robes.”
Interpretation: It’s talking about the Buffalo Hunt clearly, not their culture how ever
How might this affect a character or a plot? The Offspring of our voyageur might live here considering his is half Canadien/Canadian, and Aboriginal
6) Use the space below to start brainstorming a sequence of events that incorporates all of the above into a story. Think about how one character may encounter or interact with all of the above.
He would start as a settler in Upper Canada and move to Hudson’s Bay to become a voyageur because he needs money and then he would meet a lot of Aboriginals and he would end up marrying one of their women for her to help with direction, and then their offspring would end up settling in modern day Manitoba as a Buffalo Hunter part of the Metis. In his job as a voyageur he found Adventure and excitement which was what he was always looking for
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Part 2:
1) Describe the push and pull factors of Irish immigration to Canada in the 1800s:
Push Factors (In Ireland) Pull Factors (Canada)
Landlords weren’t there and they kept subdividing their lots and made it hard to grow crops, and support a family, and if they can’t pay rent with crops they get evicted.
Landlords start kicking people off land even if they could pay, so that land for grazing would be created.
Not enough food, because of the potato famine, so because of the lack of housing and no food, workhouses came to Ireland but this didn’t fix the problem so they shipped in Corn from the states which again didn’t fix the problem, so Immigration to Canada started to come in The Landlords told the Irish that there was money and a house waiting for them (for the people getting on the boats) however this didn’t happen and was probably a trick so that they would have tenants
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2) Describe the conditions on board coffin ships (Horizons – Chapter 2 – pages 57-58):
The conditions onboard these ships varied from societal class to societal class, for the poorer catholic Irish who were full Irish the conditions were worse because they could not afford to go with the Protestant Irish which came from Britain so they had a fair amount of money, cargo storage boats were often turned into a passenger ship and all the steerage class people would be in the places that used to hold cargo so you imagine it being cramped, in steerage they were forced to crap in buckets which would smell bad and commonly spill, which is disgusting
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3) In what ways were the Irish accepted or not accepted in Canada?
Accepted Not Accepted
In lower Canada the Catholic Irish were accepted among the french because they were the same religion, and the protestant Irish (the ones that originally were from Britain) were more accepted under the inhabitants of upper Canada because of their wealthy Background, Heritage, and Religion The Catholic Irish were accepted by the French but they couldn’t speak their language which made it very hard for them to fit in in Canada and they couldn’t go to Upper Canada because they weren’t accepted by the British settlers because of them being poor and them being full Catholic which hadn’t been popular within the Brits for some time, on the other side of things the Protestants were mostly accepted besides in some parts of French Canada because of them being Catholic and the Protestant Irish being of British decent and another religion.
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4) Use the space below to start brainstorming a sequence of events that incorporates all of the above into a story. Think about how one character may encounter or interact with all of the above.
So a Character is a Catholic Irish who is living in a plot of land that continually gets divided into smaller and smaller pieces to make more money for the land lord, this Character and his family heavily rely on crops, and most commonly potatoes because they are cheap and easy to grow, the potatoes are already hardly enough to support his family. Some time passes and then a potato killing virus came by that killed crops in just ten days which affected a majority of his crops and then he couldn’t pay rent with potatoes anymore so he was kicked off his land so he ended up digging his family a ditch which sheltered them for the time being but without food it was super hard to live so when he heard about workhouses coming to Ireland he ran out there every morning with his family to try to get picked up for the day to at least get some food in a day after a while Britain starting shipping in corn to feed the Irish but it wasn’t enough and soon he couldn’t handle trying to survive in Ireland so he decided to move to Canada on one of the Coffin Ships, He and his Family were placed in steerage, which was a really bad place to travel because the boats would rock during eating times and the food mostly consisted of soup and they had to crap in buckets in their sleeping quarters which would smell bad and often spill getting everyone dirty and gross, after weeks of this they got to a French Island where the Coffins Ships were inspected for People Infected with harmful disease, and a lot of people died on this island because they were quarantined with other sick people, anyway our character lost his son to this island because he ended up being sick, he later died on the island, once they got to Canada they had to learn French because the Catholic Irish weren’t accepted in upper Canada but they were in quebec. Seeking more money than he was earning he decided that a good way of making money was by joining the fur trade where he met a French Canadian veteran to the job who taught him and a black loyalists how to do it the ended up making a crew together and going out on each and every mission with those 3 plus some others to make the journey easier on themselves. He found what he wanted and more when he joined the Canadian Fur Trade, Money, Adventure and a happy life.
5) Create a sketch or find images that illustrates at least one aspect in #4:
Part 3:
1) Describe the push and pull factors of American slaves immigrating to Canada in the 1800s (Horizons – Chapter 2 – pages 60):
Push Factors (In America) Pull Factors (Canada)
They were worked super hard, Beaten and they didn’t get enough food a lot of the time, they weren’t paid for their labour, and they couldn’t choose to move so that made many many slaves want to leave Canada was the first colony to out law slavery and it was also neighbouring the USA so it isn’t far to come and they can be free, also if they came to Canada and fought in the Militia they would get land for free
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2) Describe how slaves made it to Canada/free states (Horizons – Chapter 2 – pages 60-61):
They used a network of underground railways to reach Canada or the far northern part of the states which were called free states, They would walk hundreds of miles through the Tunnels, if they were caught they would be brutally punished. The escaping of these slaves was usually supported by the people in the Quaker and Methodists church because slavery was thought to be a sin in their churches
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3) What was the Fugitive Slave Act and how did that affect the Underground Railroad?
It made it so that if anyone found a runaway slave they were supposed to be returned to their owner (this includes the free states), so if a slave had escaped to the free states of the USA and they were found out they would have to be escorted back to their owner, which meant that the tunnels were less used for the states and now even more used for Canada which would make them easier to catch in the tunnels because there are less they could go through.
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4) In what ways were the Black immigrants accepted or not accepted in Canada?
Accepted Not Accepted
They were allowed to live there and own land, and basically do whatever the other ethnic groups could do.
They had a struggle getting into government and politics, they also faced heavy discrimination because of their ethnicity and they ended up making black communities in the communities they lived in to surround themselves with people who wouldn’t discriminate they also made communities made up fully of black loyalist immigrants.
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5) Use the space below to start brainstorming a sequence of events that incorporates all of the above into a story. Think about how one character may encounter or interact with all of the above.
He was born into slavery and seeks nothing more than to be free and do what he wants when he wants to, when he catches wind of the underground railways he starts plotting his escape in his head and observing the movements of the guards to see when his opening to go and find the tunnels is, once the time comes he escapes seamlessly at night when they were supposed to be asleep, once he makes it to the railways he’s met with hardly any light, before he left he stole food and lighting to help him on his journey to Canada. A lot of time goes by walking through the tunnels until he finally sees light and he ran and ran until he came out at Canada and was greeted with kindness and nice people, but the kindness would go away soon as he moved into a colony, there he was greeted with nasty words, he was finally free so he didn’t make much of a fuss about it but over time it just kept getting worse and worse so he decided to go to join the fur trade where he wouldn’t be discriminated against by very many people and he thought maybe they wouldn’t discriminate against me at all, that ended up being a reality when he met a very nice French Canadian who had been doing his voyageur work for a very long time, he greeted him with open arms and started to teach him and a new Irish person how to do their job.
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Part 4: Video Discussion
1) What modern day events share some parallels with the fur trade? Explain the similarities.
2) How vital were Aboriginals to the fur trade? Who is more significant to the creation of our Canada today, the Aboriginals or the European fur traders?
3) Are push (from anywhere) and pull factors (to Canada) generally the same today as it was in the 1800s? Explain why or why not with reference to the Great Migration and the Underground Railroad.
4) Is Canada more accepting of immigrants today than it was in the 1800s? Explain how you know with reference to the Great Migration and the Underground Railroad.
5) How did the fur trade and immigration in the 1800s contribute to our identity today?
Part 5 – getting the story for your pitch
Discuss the following with your partner:
1) Create an overall goal (theme) for your main character that drives the movie/game idea.
eg: revenge, love, freedom, learning a valuable lesson, finding the truth, proving yourself, etc.
2) How could the goal of your character end up with her/him interacting with all 3 settings (fur trade, slave states, Ireland)? What would be the sequence? Where will the story start and end?
3) What conflicts will get in the way of your character achieving her/his goal? Where will these happen? Could the historical research you’ve done provide any conflicts?
4) How does your character achieve his/her goal?
5) How can you make the ending exciting and impactful?
6) How can you incorporate all the checklist items into the story to make it plausible or realistic?
Part 6 – what to present:
1) Hook your audience with the concept of the film/game – what makes it special?
2) Give the general plot:
a. Intro – How does the film/game start? How is your character’s goal set up?
b. Rising Action – What conflicts get in the way of your character achieving his/her goal?
c. Climax – How does the goal get achieved (or not)?
d. Falling Action/ Conclusion – How will you wrap up the film/game?
3) Explain how each checklist term will be incorporated into your film/game.
a. Provide images to help clarify your description
b. Explain why you’ve incorporated the term the way you did (reference your primary evidence)
4) Conclude with reminding the audience what is special about your idea.
*Remember, SELL your idea to the audience
Imagine 3 people of different races and with prejudice towards one another lost in the wilderness, starting out hating each other but learning to respect everyone’s past and more importantly them, 1800s Canada is the only place you could see that, this historically accurate story, (Mostly a fictitious story with facts about 3 things) includes a escaped slave named Jesper Wecksell who seeked freedom, a Catholic Irish named O’Brian who sought money and a french Canadian named Kenny Schrub who sought adventure, they all ended up finding themselves in the fur trade, but they didn’t like each other because of their heritage, Jean didn’t like all the Immigrants from Ireland and Slaves because he preferred to have just the French people, Jesper Wecksell didn’t like white people because he was put into slavery by the ones down south, and O’Brian didn’t wanna learn a new language to move to Canada so he just hated French people. Jesper Wecksell or JW as we’ll call him was a slave in South Carolina who had been planning to escape for a very very long time, he had recently heard about the underground railroad and he thought it was his chance to escape so at night and in the day he searched for a way to leave without being spotting he so he could get to the underground railroad before they noticed he was gone, he found the best way was to kill one guard that tended to have the best vision, of the area and if he were to kill him he could leave, that night he hides in the cotton fields until late night when all the lights in the house went off that’s when he crawled towards the bushes near by where the guard was, he waited until he wouldn’t be seen by the other guard and then he popped up and knifed him in the back after that he took the guards gun and ran to where he heard the railroad was located, once he found the cave he was greeted by a few other escaped slaves and they decided to journey together because it was too long a journey to go alone, once JW descended into the cave he finally felt somewhat free which was something that he’d never felt before and he knew that even if he got caught he would be happy that he finally felt freedom even if it was briefly, it was a super long way so they had to gather a lot of food to keep them nourished in the underground, about 20 miles into their journey they were all very very tired and had to sleep, but since they didn’t have very nice backpacks they couldn’t bring blankets and pillows so they soon realized that every night they would have to spend on the cold wet ground, one of JW’s buddy asked him “Do you think we’ll make it?” To which JW responded “I don’t know, but I know that dying in this tunnel is better than being a slave for the rest of my life, for me its freedom or die trying I’ll never go back to where I was, I’ll never forgive them for what they did to my family.” The next morning they woke up at around 5am and continued on, after the day before they felt like it was impossible to go any further, and they were so fatigued but they kept walking anyway, every day they had a benchmark of 20 miles so they could get there as fast and easy as possible, during their walk about 7 days into the tunnel JW’s buddy named Pasha Biceps asked him what they did to his family and JW responded with “I don’t know for sure but they killed them or at least I haven’t seen them for five years, I want to go back to Africa to see the remainder of my family and not be around all these racist white people but even in Canada they’ll never allow that, but at least I’ll be able to do what I want when I get there.” Pasha replied with “Damn, that’s some deep stuff my dude, I’ve only been a slave for a few years but I feel ya bro.” JW started reminiscing about the day that his parents were taken from him, it was a pretty normal day and JW was just coming in from the cotton fields and he was headed back to his shack where his and a few other families stayed his family had gone in a bit earlier but he didn’t think much of it until he arrived at his shack where he saw his parents badly beaten and being dragged off, that was the last time he ever saw his parents, according to the other families they had been sold to another plant or killed for breaking curfew and stealing extra food, all he could remember after that was crying and screaming and passing out on his twin mattress he shared with his brother. A few weeks later on about the 23rd day of walking they saw a light in the distance of the tunnel and they all yelled in happiness except for JW he didn’t see as much of a success he rather saw it as leaving the people he cared about back at the plantation. JW ended up trying to get a job in many different places but no one would ever hire him and they normally made remarks to do with his race and even though he was a free man he felt like everyone still looked down upon him but he still needed a job if he wanted to have a home, and that’s when he came across a flier that read about a job in the fur trade, and all you had to do was go there and you would get a home and training on how to do your job.
O’Brian started out as a middle class renter in the republic of Ireland, he had a family of 5 and he had an overall happy life, but then his land kept getting split in have the first time he didn’t really care because he still had more than enough space but then it happened another 3 times and then at this point he could hardly grow any crops to pay rent so he decided on potatoes because they were super easy to grow, but during the 1800s he started to notice a lot of his crops going rotten, he didn’t know why but at the time he didn’t worry too much because he knew that rotten crops happen, but then when he woke up the next morning he saw all his crops spoiled and untouchable, O’Brian immediately knew what this meant, so now along with not being able to feed his family he was unable to pay his rent. In the next O’Brian got kicked out of his house for not paying rent, knowing that he needed shelter O’Brian decided that to house his family of 5 he had to dig ditches to live in, so when they left they packed up any food they had left and a shovel, blankets and all the essentials they needed to survive. About a couple months went by and that was around the time Workhouses came to Ireland and everyone would line up to try to get in there because they would be paid and fed, every morning O’Brian spread his family out in different areas of the mob to try to have more of a chance to get in if they picked from one area of the mob, it was a hard life for them barely feeding themselves and really there was no way they could stay in Ireland so they made the decision to immigrate to Canada because they had farm land and it was a British Colony so they figured they would either be able to fit right in and get a job or they would be taken in by a richer family, so they saved their pennies until they finally had enough to go on one of these coffin ships which they knew would be bad but for a better life. The day came where they were boarding the ship and they got on with no problems, they were in steerage so when the got down there they saw shitty beds and buckets which they were told they had to “go” in. O’Brian and his family were disgusted by this but they had to suck it up to get to Canada the first day was all kind of a jumble of rules and timetables but once that was over it was dinner and then breakfast they thought they would at least get decent food to eat but they didn’t they just got watered down soup and then they had to go to their sleeping chambers for the rest of the evening. The first night on the boat O’Brian hardly slept because it smelt like crap, the boat was rocking and the beds were small and uncomfortable, the next couple weeks were kind of the same and not enjoyable whatsoever but once they got to a little island outside of Canada their boat had to be inspected for diseased people, they came on board from little canoes and took sick people to quarantine, once it got to O’Brian’s family his son was taken by a french man named jean and from then on he really hated the french. Once O’Brian reached Canada he quickly realized that the upper Canadian’s were protestant and really had no interest in even being kind to the Catholic Irish when they tried to find someone to stay with no one in Upper Canada would take them in and this is when they realized they had to go to Quebec O’Brian was reluctant but since he had no other choice he went anyway, because he needed a better life, than what he had in Ireland, so he went there but as he was walking into Quebec he saw a flier laying on the ground about the Fur Trade and getting a job and housing there and without thinking twice he went there
Kenny lived in Quebec during the Irish immigration and he was ok with everything happening because they had somewhat similar culture and he was happy to invite some Irish folk into his house because he understood that the condition back is Ireland was currently pretty awful, although he got kinda annoyed that his culture was shifting quite a bit because of the influx of Irish people but he tried to not get to upset with it, although it was hard for him not to, around this time he had been hearing about the fur trade and he had decided that was something he wanted to do, because he thought that travelling through all of Canada would be fun this did cause some complications for the family he had brought in because of the immigration, he ended up thinking about finding them a different host for the family so he could do what he wanted. Some weeks went by searching for a family, and by this point he was getting fed up with searching and he became very irritable because the family was blocking him from doing the things he wanted to do so he started growing a sort of hatred to the catholic Irish families even though he knew it was ridiculous to hate them and there was no blame that he could put on them. Most Irish families were already occupying someone who was willing to bring them in which also really started to annoy him and then the other people willing to bring them in didn’t have proper means to be able to host them, once he found someone who was capable of hosting his Irish family he broke the news to the family he was hosting and he was already packed up and leaving to the fur trade because he wanted the adventure.
When they all got to the fur trade they already kind of had problems with one another for the reasons that were explained in the above stories, so when they were trained and told to set out on their trade route they weren’t pleased that they were in a group together although they didn’t say anything, on the first day of their training they were taught how to row the York boats which was the main way of transportation for the Hudson’s bay company which was the one they all chose to join, they were also taught how to properly map so they could find their way through the routes to get to their destination, they were also taught what their trade rates were so they could get the best possible deal so they could earn more money in commission, on the day they set out for their first journey, it was smooth sailing it was a extensive walk to the water so they could get in their boats to get to their destination which was down in what is modern day Manitoba, they made it to the boats without any problems and a lot of people were talking on the way except JW, KennyS, and O’Brian who on the next day all ended up on the back of the boat because everyone who was making pals during their voyage took the front seats with their friends so they just decided they were better off in the back, the first day on the water was pretty smooth with just slight wind that wasn’t enough to put their sails up, they ended up landing on some rocks were they laid out tents to sleep in, the first night was incredibly uncomfortable because of the rocky terrain in Rupert’s land. During the night sleeping on the rocks hardly any of the voyageurs slept at all so the next morning they were tired and they were just rowing at a tired pace because most the people on the voyage were new and inexperienced which ended up being a problem because that day a rough storm hit and before they could find a place to stop the storm went up to a full swing and water became super rough and the trees along the shore began to sway and creak which made everyone in the boat feel uneasy because they could fall on them at any point, which ended up being exactly what happened, a tree came crashing down hard and split the boat in 2 halves killing 3-4 people leaving one half having the front people and the back having KennyS, JW, and O’Brian as the storm made the 2 halves go far apart leaving our 3 characters and the rest stranded far from each other, when Kenny, JW and O’Brian hit the shore they slammed their heads because of the wind and ended up passing out, when they woke up the storm had subsided and they only had limited food a couple maps and water, which wasn’t enough to last them 3 weeks, when they had recalled what happened they started to panic thinking that they would most likely die unless they were able to find their way to either civilization or back to where they came from, they started to argue about what they should do first, one saying that should head north, one saying we should figure out where we are, and one saying we should try to make fire to keep warm (It was early in the year making it pretty cold) they ended up getting angry at each other partly cause they thought they were right and partly cause of their differences in culture, this ended in JW talking over them saying “I know we dislike each other, I don’t like y’all either, but if we wanna survive we have to work together.” Kenny and O’Brian agreed that they should try to get along for at least the time being, they ended up deciding to get warm and look everything over on a map to see if they could find where they were going to go to get back to civilization or somewhere they could get help since they had no luck finding where they were on a map because of how large the river they were on was it was no help, so they decided to just head north after eating some pemmican to keep them energized during their walk, the compass they had did take a pretty hard hit so they weren’t 100% sure that it worked but they knew it was one of the only ways to get back, after a while they felt the weather get a little bit warmer and they had their suspicions they were going south but they didn’t sweat it too much because they knew that was a possibility, a few nights went by with cloud so they couldn’t just search for the north star to direct them so they just kept on their original route until eventually they found some huts that they immediately yelled in excitement because even if this wasn’t where they initially wanted to go it was at least somewhere they could stay and get help. As the village turned out it was actually their destination for fur trading, the aboriginals were disappointed but they felt as though it was better to take them in because they got lost and they have made trips before so they were loyal trading partners one of the families there ended up taking them in for a couple nights and they sent a messenger to the hudson’s bay company that some of their voyageurs were in an accident and that they’re safe with them, during the 2 weeks they had to wait for people to come they were taught aboriginal culture and Kenny started to like it and the Hostess that was their took a liking to him and he knew about aboriginal ladies helping out with pathfinding and he felt that could really help considering what had happened on their journey. During the two weeks there Kenny and the aboriginal who’s name was Juliano ended up getting married for the help with voyaging once they got back Kenny and Juliano had a kid who ended up being part of the Metis tribe in Manitoba who participated in the buffalo hunt which also helped with voyaging because it made Pemmican which was the main source of food in the fur trade because they needed non perishables and from then on Kenny, JW, O’Brian and Juliano were an inseparable team.
~Fin <—- Idk why I did that……..
BTW sorry for it being late, totally forgot to hand it in, also did you want me to do the primary source stuff or just read through, cause if you want me to I can do that, sorry, oh also just to clarify I did read through the stuff, again sorry did it on the friday then totally forgot to hand it in cause I was playing video games with friends after I did it, and only remembered it while doing my science work that I had to catch up on, sorry.