We were tromping out onto a wetland frozen nine inches deep. It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago, far away. Bill Mackowski, in his 60th year of trapping, mostly around ...

(The Columbian files) In the fur trade, New Year’s Day ... Vancouver employees and families enjoyed an extended year-end celebration. The company released employees from work, allowing them ...

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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 ...

Or should the birthday be dated to 1624, when a small number of Dutch landed to establish New Amsterdam, a company town for frontier fur trade ... By NYC," a yearlong celebration to mark, as ...