The only way she ever did, or ever could, utilize the northwest coast was in prosecution of the fur trade. But that trade has declined and nearly run out by the destruction of the animals ...

Details the exploration and development of Northern Canada, highlighting the historical attempts to find a Northwest Passage, the establishment of the fur trade, and the gold rushes that spurred ...

(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 ...

More than a century after the Hudson's Bay Company was founded, another great Canadian fur-trading company was born. The North West Company took its trade to the Indians by establishing a network ...

Playwright Frances Koncan shifts the focus in this powerfully funny satire from the male gaze on history to the power of women and their place in the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.