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 ...

Later, indigenous hunters found that Europeans were keen on buying up beaver pelts, which then formed the keystone of a large and powerful fur trade ... Can't Find In Canada There's another ...

Learn more about Tyee Presents. In modern times we seldom think of the impact the fur trade had on colonization in Canada — though it’s one of the first examples of resource-based extraction ...

(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 ...

Animal suffering, environmental damage, and a serious public health risk: why MPs and Peers agree it’s time to end the UK fur ...

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 ...