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 ...

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

(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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...