St. Albert Métis Elder Gary Gairdner said he and a few others came up with the idea for the trading post about a year and a ...

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 ...

On the northern banks of the Peace River in northwestern Alberta, take a deep dive into the history of this region’s Indigenous People, fur trading past, and Catholic missionary presence at ...

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 ...