This short film from 1946 presents an outline of the fur trade's history and the commercial use of fur in Canada. A thirst for fur by the kings and courts of the Old World positioned the fur trade ...

The fur trade is Canada's oldest industry, but today some people challenge the morality of killing animals for their fur. This film examines the public relations war raging between the industry ...

In the late 17th century, hundreds of Frenchmen trekked into the wilderness of North America to seek their fortune in the fur trade. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) They left the ...

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 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 ...

Hulu subscribers may not have realized it yet, but the streamer shed barely any movies in September, and there are only a handful leaving at the end of October. That means most of your favorite ...

Labour MP Ruth Jones plans to use her Private Members Bill so that UK legislation would "shut up shop on the cruel and unnecessary fur trade". Humane Society International/UK (HSI/UK) who has been ...

A spokesperson for the British Fur Trade Association said: "The animals that would have been used by Canada Goose will still have to be culled to control numbers as part of managed conservation ...

Coronavirus: Calls to shut down 'dirty fur trade' Authorities say all 288 infected herds have been killed and they have put down approximately 10 million animals. It is believed the majority of ...

The carry trade is one of the most popular trading strategies in the currency market. Putting on a carry trade involves nothing more than buying a high-yielding currency and funding it with a low ...

It's a center of the Great Lakes fur trade, so you had all different kinds ... visitors can enter the King's Storehouse and watch a short movie about the history of the area.