Primarily by trading with the Native Americans who were anxious to obtain firearms, metal tools, colored ribbons, beads and cooking pots.
The french could also obtain furs by going into the interior region themselves.
Mostly animal furs. The french trapped animals such as beavers, skinned them, and sent the furs back to Europe where they were used in the latest fashions such as tophats.
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Beeds, blankets, guns, pots, and lead fro the French...furs from the Indians
the America Indians
the french came for furs and trade
The French wanted the first nations to give them animal fur for metal good such as, pots and knifes. So in other word the french was using First nations for furs.
By buying and selling furs.
His first visits to French Canada were to trade furs, but on the second voyage he sought new areas to colonize along the Atlantic coast.
The French in the North got the timber and furs in America by hunting, or stealing from indians!
furs
beaver furs