30/09/2015 · The fur trade is part of Canada’s resource-based economy and one of Canada’s oldest and most historically significant industries. Four hundred years following its start, the commercial fur trade continues to utilize a plentiful sustainable Canadian resource in a responsible manner and is an important contributor to the Canadian economy and ecology.

The Fur Trade in Canada is a 1930 book by Harold Innis that draws sweeping conclusions about the complex and frequently devastating effects of the fur trade on aboriginal peoples; about how furs as staple products induced an enduring economic dependence among the European immigrants who settled in the new colony and about how the fur trade ultimately shaped …

Fur Trade. Atlas / Métis. Canada was built on the fur trade, which supplied European demand for pelts from animals such as the beaver (Castor canadensis) to make hats. In Michif, the word for beaver is “aen kaastor.”. At the start of the fur trade, the First Nations did most of the trapping.

The Fur Trade in Canada The following timeline gives an overview of the history of the fur trade in Canada. This timeline spans from our country’s earliest inhabitants to the present. Both fur-trading companies are discussed, but there is a great-er focus on the Hudson’s Bay Company. Throughout this timeline you will find bolded text

When we talk about the fur trade, we mean a time starting in the late 1600s when companies based in Europe spread throughout what is now Canada. They traded with Indigenous people for animal fur, mostly from beavers but from other animals, too. The Hudson’s Bay Company, often called HBC, is one of the oldest companies in the world.

In his introduction to this new edition, Arthur J. Ray argues that The Fur Trade in Canada is the most definitive economic history and geography of the country ever produced. Innis's revolutionary conclusion - that Canada was created because of its geography, not in spite of it - is a captivating idea but also an enigmatic proposition in light of the powerful decentralizing …

03/10/2018 · An outline of the history of the fur trade, and of the commercial use of furs in Canada. The skins of wild animals, coveted wear for the kings and courts of ...

14/11/2016 · In Discovery Canada's new scripted television drama Frontier, Allan Hawco, Jason Momoa and Alun Armstrong play agents of rival companies battling for domination of the 1700s fur trade. Though many of the characters are fictionalized, the show is an unflinching and accurate look at a brutal time in early Canadian history, when wealth and power were controlled …