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A fur trader in Fort Chipewyan, Northwest Territories, in the 1890s A fur shop in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2019 Fur muff manufacturer's 1949 advertisement. The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.
The fur trade did not involve barter in the way that most people presuppose but was a credit/debit relationship when a fur trader would arrive in a community in the summer or fall, hand out goods to the Indians who would pay him back in the spring with the furs from the animals they had killed over the winter; in the interim, further exchanges ...
(Maniwaki in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. HBC established fur trading post) (17th century fur trade building located in Lachine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.) (Nipising 1874 Hudson's Bay Company trading post) Fort George
Pages in category "Fur traders" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. François Baby (businessman)
Siberian fur trader at the fair in Leipzig, Saxony (c. 1800). Russians used several methods of acquiring the fur pelts from the Siberian furriers: yasak, purchase, confiscation, hunting expeditions, trade with natives, and in much later years, fur farming of the most valued animals. [6]
The fur trade is the worldwide buying and selling of fur for clothing and other purposes. The fur trade was one of the driving forces of exploration of North America and the Russian Far East. [37] The fur trade has long-lasting effects, specifically on the Natives in North America and the populations of fur bearing animals worldwide.
The term "maritime fur trade" has been used by historians from the 1880s onwards [16] to distinguish the coastal ship-based fur trade from the continental land-based fur trade of, for example, the North West Company (1779–1821) of Montreal and the American Fur Company (1808–1847). [17]
Pages in category "Fur trade" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 252 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.