The Dodge County Historical Society, 105 Park Ave., Beaver Dam, presents a special program, “The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior,” with author Robert Silbernagel at 1 p.m.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the animals’ soft underfur turned into countless beaver hats. The fur trade, in turn, drove colonial expansion across North America and played a crucial role in the settlement of Oregon ...