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 pelts. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) (Underwool is ...

Can you believe that we are in August already? The sun is high, the cicadas are buzzing, and if you look closely you can see the end of summer in sight. It’s a time of year that means ...

Their melanin melded with a part of American history their enslaved ancestors helped carry on their backs. “They talk about the fur trade being a big kind of money maker for Europeans ...

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 ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Competition between the two ... along with their part of the fur trade. This vacuum was filled by English pedlars (as the HBC dismissively called ...

(The Columbian files) In the fur trade, New Year’s Day, not Christmas, was the season’s more beloved holiday. Before Christmas and after New Year’s Day, Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Vancouver ...

The Salteaux-Slovene/Anishinaabe playwright and theatre artist from Ontario’s Couchiching First Nation, won the 2015 Tom Hendry award for best new comedy for her play The Dance-off of Conscious ...

In a letter to environment secretary Steve Reed, the cross-party group of 42 MPs and peers call for government backing for a ...