Wednesday to Saturday., 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 3 p.m.; PWYC, Wednesday, 1 p.m.; Matinee, Feb. 13, 20, 7:30 p.m. Where : Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova St. Tickets/info : $30 at ...

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 ...

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

Alcohol was one of the most important commodities in the fur trade - and it had devastating effects on native people. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Alcohol increased their profits.

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 ...