Socials 10: Debriefing boats and examining NW Co strengths

Today we debriefed the strengths and weakness of York boats and canoes.  Here is a review of some of the ideas we discussed:

Next, we looked at some of the characteristics of the business model of the NW Co and then split into groups to rank them in the order of our perceived ranking of importance.  Here they were:

We will next try to take the "so-whats" we discovered in that activity to create a new business model for the HBC so that it can beat the NW Co in the battle of the fur trade.

For homework, please come to class with pp 139-146 read so you are ready for a brief reading quiz.