The Pathfinders 6

2. MvTavish / With #8A and other Montréal businessmen, he was a partner in the North West Company: Simon ___.
5. BeBusy / While their husbands were out on hunting expeditions, country wives in Canada's interior would ___ with chores on the farm (2 words).
7. / The young, strong French Canadians who paddled from Québec in canoes to the interior in search of adventure and opportunity.
10. / Mode of attack against a foe, during Canada's early history.
12. / With his flamboyant brother-in-law, Pierre Esprit Radisson, this coureur de bois helped to found the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1670: Médard ___ des Groseilliers.
14. Collection of rules imposed on Canada's colonists.

1. / Pass which was traversed by David Thompson and his expedition en route to the Columbia which led to the Pacific Ocean.
3. CHOO! CHOO! Beginning in the late 1840s, Canadians began to dream of one (for short) that could transport them across their vast land.
4. / The success of the Hudson's Bay Company relied on them (2 words).
6. Western / Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye, had an obsession. It was to find a route to the hypothetical "Great ___ Sea" which was believed to be in the interior, leading into the Pacific Ocean..
8. Man Who Looks at Stars (a.k.a. David Thompson) explored and surveyed the vast Canadian landscape, and then created these.
9. Vancouver / It served as the headquarters for the Columbia district of the Hudson's Bay Company: Fort ___.
10. / In search of a route to the Pacific Ocean in 1793, the explorer Alexander Mackenzie was guided by native peoples to a salt water channel. ___ marks on the rocks proved that it did lead to the Pacific.
11. Polarbears / David Thompson noted that if one was spotted, the Indian rule was to pass it by with a steady step while pretending not to notice it (2 words).
13. / Montréal merchant who was a partner in the North West Company which eventually merged with the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1821: James ___.