THE INLAND FUR TRADE COMPANY

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following story using the vocabulary words listed below.

Dr. John McLoughlin was 1.___________ ____________ of the Hudson's Bay Company. His house and many other

buildings were inside the 2.__________________ or walls of Fort Vancouver. Indians traded for blankets, beads, and cloth at

the Indian Trade Shop. Items in storage, such as beaver pelts were kept in buildings called "stores"; gunpowder was kept in the

"Powder Magazine". The 3.__________________ was built as a lookout to help protect the fort. Dr. McLoughlin

worked very hard to make sure that there was an 4.___________________of food and other supplies for everyone who lived

at the fort. He did not want people to be 5._____________________on England for tools and other items made of iron and steel. He hired a 6.______________________ to make tools of iron and traps. 7.________________

___________________were made in the bakery at the fort for the 8._________________________ of trappers to eat

when they were trapping beaver. Dr. McLoughlin and his assistant James Douglas wanted to 9._______________________

the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest. Today 10.________________________________ take care of the objects that Dr.

McLoughlin used so long ago.

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