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    The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern...
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    The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces...
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    The maritime fur trade, a ship-based fur trade system, focused largely on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of...
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  • fur trade is an exchange concerned with the gathering, buying and selling of valuable animal furs that originate from Siberia. The Siberian fur trade...
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  • included a major transfer of furs and goods to be traded for furs. Variations included a mix of other types of trading, business transactions, business...
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  • The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History is a book written by Harold Innis covering the fur trade era in Canada from the early...
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    Germany was the world's largest fur market. In 1975, the International Fur Trade Federation banned endangered species furs like silk monkey, silky sifaka...
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    Rabbit hair (redirect from Rabbit fur)
    valuable today, although it was once a lower-priced commodity in the fur trade. The hair of a rabbit can be divided into three types: "longer, rectrix...
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    stable isotope analysis of Holocene fur seal bone collagen (δ13C and δ15N) indicates that before the maritime fur trade, it was more common for these animals...
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    With the amalgamation of the two fur trading companies in 1821, modern-day British Columbia existed in three fur trading departments. The bulk of the central...
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    improved by the mountain men and the big fur companies, originally to serve the mule train-based inland fur trade. Mountain men arose in a geographic and...
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    The fur trade in Montana was a major period in the area's economic history from about 1800 to the 1850s. It also represents the initial meeting of cultures...
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    litters typically have two or three offspring. Sable fur has been highly valued in the fur trade since the early Middle Ages, and its popularity has driven...
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  • point, the fur trade had relied on Indians to do the actual trapping and hunting that produced the furs; they were then brought to trading posts where...
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    used primarily to draw from the wealth of natural resources such as furs through trade with the various indigenous peoples. In the seventeenth century, successful...
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    American fur trade. Expanding into many former British fur-trapping regions and trade routes, the company grew to monopolize the fur trade in the United...
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    California's early fur trade, more than any other single factor, that opened up the West, and the San Francisco Bay Area in particular, to world trade. The massive...
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    began to trade with Natives during the 16th century. Colonists created factories, also known as trading posts, at which furs could be traded, in Native...
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    American Fur Company (AFC) in 1810, the Pacific Fur Company (PFC) operated in the Pacific Northwest in the ongoing North American fur trade. Two movements...
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    The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's...
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    expansion of the United States during the 19th century. The growth of the fur trade in the early 19th century laid much of the groundwork as trappers explored...
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    (trading post) Fur trade Karum (trade post) Navajo trading posts Panton, Leslie & Company Trading Post (newspaper) United States Government Fur Trade Factory...
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    Acton House fur trading posts. Trade with the local aboriginal peoples continued until 1821 when the companies merged, they continued to trade until 1875...
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    Coureur des bois (category Fur traders)
    interior of North America, usually to trade with First Nations peoples by exchanging various European items for furs. Some learned the trades and practices...
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    range, and are invasive in Europe where they were introduced for the fur trade. The similar Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus, the tanuki)...
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    related to Fur-farming. Fur is Green – Fur Council of Canada A Brief History of the Fur Trade – White Oak Society The Fur Industry – MSN Encarta Fur Farming...
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    Chinchilla (redirect from Chinchilla fur)
    limited recovery in some areas. Chinchilla fur trade on an international level goes back to the 16th century. Their fur is popular due to its extremely soft...
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    charge of the processing of the pelts necessary to the fur trade. Women were integral to the fur trade and their contributions were lauded, so much so that...
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    Antarctic fur seals, Galapagos fur seals, Juan Fernandez fur seals, New Zealand fur seals, brown fur seals, South American fur seals, and subantarctic fur seals...
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    Métis (category Fur trade)
    by the mid-18th century, during the early years of the North American fur trade. In Canada, the Métis, with a population of 624,220 as of 2021, are one...
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