Details the exploration and development of Northern Canada, highlighting the historical attempts to find a Northwest Passage, the establishment of the fur trade, and the gold rushes that spurred ...

Film critic Manning Franks takes a look at fur documentaries that you should check out at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC. California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries ...

We were tromping out onto a wetland frozen nine inches deep. It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago, far away. Bill Mackowski, in his 60th year of trapping, mostly around ...

The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 ...

(Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada) At first, fur traders came to the Northwest Territory bringing guns, blankets and cooking utensils to trade for buffalo robes. Soon whiskey became the ...