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Vancouver performances of Women of the Fur Trade satirize Canadian history over a nice cup of tea
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 ...
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The Fashion of Fur
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 ...
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The Multiethnic Roots Of Canada's Beaver Tail Pastry
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 ...
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Watch 'Women of the Fur Trade' This February
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 ...
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43 MPs and Peers urge Ministers: put public health before bobble hats
Animal suffering, environmental damage, and a serious public health risk: why MPs and Peers agree it’s time to end the UK fur ...
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The alcohol problem
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.