The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. 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 ...

Beaten down by beaver traffic, he said ... a mink farmer in Nova Scotia. Many in the fur trade now readily acknowledge that activists who protested so loudly had a point: Farmers were not ...

T he fur trade, particularly the capture of beaver pelts, had a huge influence on the development of parts of the future United States and Canada. Hundreds of men made their way to the New World ...

“Historians have referred to the fur trade as the aquatic Dust Bowl, this vast elimination of riparian habitat that profoundly shaped streams all over the continent.” While the beaver ...

These men were the adventurers - travelling the fur trade routes themselves from Montreal ... In one year, the North West Company brought in 160,000 beaver pelts, 17,000 muskrat, 5,500 fox ...