Many in the fur trade now readily acknowledge that activists ... “they’re usually taken from their homes, trucked hundreds of miles to the slaughterhouse, and it’s bloody and horrific.

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 ...

More than a century after the Hudson's Bay Company was founded, another great Canadian fur-trading company was born. The North West Company took its trade to the Indians by establishing a network ...