New France at the time had only 10,000 inhabitants while the English colonies to the south ... freedom and independence and profits from the fur trade, ignoring orders to stay along the St ...

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 ...

"the English have no sense; they give us twenty knives like this for one Beaver skin." The beaver trade was big business for both the natives and Europeans. A number of large fur trading companies ...

The City Council voted 26-19 against a ban on new fur sales in the city. Ald. Raymond Lopez and animal rights activists ...

End the fur trade now in order to prevent future pandemics, some of the world's leading health experts will warn today - speaking out on what they called a ticking time bomb. Filthy fur farms ...

Dozens of MPs and peers have raised the alarm over “a very serious risk to public health” from the trade in real fur after viruses with a high risk of spreading to humans were found on Chinese ...