fur trade

Sea otter furs taken back to Russia opened a rich fur commerce between Europe, Asia, and the North American Pacific coast during the ensuing century.

…became heavily involved in the fur trade. As the first tribe upriver from Montreal, they had a strategic market advantage as fur trade intermediaries; in addition to trading pelts they obtained directly from the hunt, the Algonquin traded corn and furs from tribes in the North American interior for French…

Many advances in geographic knowledge came about directly or indirectly because of the whale fisheries that flourished in the Arctic for three centuries. Much of the geographic knowledge accumulated by the whalers was never recorded and died with them; some, especially in the…

…enforce the monopoly of the fur trade against enterprising interlopers.

…the cause of the Canadian fur trade and of the First Nations remained the same: preserving the wilderness. Certainly, apart from single-ship actions and privateering, the war was fought for the conquest of Canada and elimination of the British as an ally of the First Nations. In the end, the…

…Chartran, the name of a fur trader who once did business on the site. The city is now a service centre for an agricultural area chiefly producing wheat, alfalfa (lucerne), and cattle. Uranium is mined near Crawford, to the southwest. Chadron State College was founded in 1911 and is an…

…Bay Company engaged in the fur trade during its first two centuries of existence. In the 1670s and ’80s the company established a number of posts on the shores of James and Hudson bays. Most of these posts were captured by the French and were in French hands between 1686…

…waters are harbour seals, northern fur seals, northern elephant seals, sea otters, and northern and California sea lions. The pelts of sea otters were the first furs traded in the Pacific coastal region, obtained from the Indians of British Columbia and sold in China.

French fur traders were active in the area from the late 17th century, and the lake and river formed an important link in a trade route from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River. A trading post was established in 1818, and permanent settlement began in…

congressman and fur trader who revolutionized the fur trade and hastened exploration of the American West when he introduced the rendezvous system as a substitute for traditional trading posts.

Fur-trading posts were established beginning in 1661. Permanent settlement, begun in 1853, produced three communities that were consolidated as a city in 1889. Superior’s growth was stimulated by the discovery of iron ore in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota in the 1890s, and it became…

…region are valued for their furs, and trapping and trade in furs have been an important part of the culture, economy, and history of the region as long as humans have lived there. Important fur-bearing species include lynx and marten (Martes americana) and, in wetland habitats, beaver (Castor canadensis), American…

Fur trappers and immigrants to California and Oregon were in the region in the 1820s and ’30s. The first 4 of some 16 annual rendezvous between trappers and buyers were held in Utah from 1825 to 1828, indicating the early importance of the area to…

…Passage, the development of the fur trade with East Asia, and the attempts of Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries to convert the Native Americans. Spaniards had sailed along the coast earlier, but the wealth of sea otter skins secured from the Native Americans on one of the voyages of Capt.…

The early explorers were followed by small numbers of fur traders. Although there were likely never more than 500 traders in Wyoming at any given time, the state’s economy between 1825 and 1840 was heavily dependent on the…

By 1838 Russian fur traders had explored the river as far inland as Nulato (Alaska), where they established a post near the junction of Koyukuk River. By 1846 the Russians had mapped almost 600 miles (970 km) of the lower river. The trader Robert Campbell, of the Hudson’s…