Couriers du Bois quest

Usage examples of furs.

At noon on September 2, 1937, Gall traded his cargo of furs for supplies abo,.

The notion of 336 QUEST FOR A NEW EMPIRE receiving goods free from HBC stores that had previously traded them for furs was disturbing and not always understood.

Naskapis were obliged to spend part of their time trapping furs, mainly marten, whether or not they preferred to hunt caribou.

That would radically reduce costs and, ideally, bring the furs out in a season or two instead of four seasons.

The whalers hired the aboriginals to help man the harpoon boats and to trap for furs that could be taken back and sold at highly profitable rates, while the Inuit were, for the first time, exposed to the iron-and-steam-age goods of their employers.

They had no raw furs with them, but their garmerits would be useful for my family and some of my rascally crew.

One of his most popular items was trading rifles for furs, but the weapons lasted a long time.

It was a time when furs ceased being strictly an extravagance, becoming much more popular and affordable.

Because market prices and fox populations were both cyclical, on many occasions Inuit came into the HBC posts with no furs to trade or not enough pelts to obtain significant store credits.

It got rich from the native people in the North as well as throughout C anada and took advantage of the native people, especially in the area of furs, handicrafts and carvings.

At the same time, consignment and mail-order houses appeared in Canada for the first time, buying and selling furs on commission, allowing competitors quick and simple entry into the trade.

FIBC in 1920 to abandon its 2 50-year-old policy of auctioning only its own furs and to begin moving consignment pelts as well.

Eastern Arctic and Hudson Bay posts, bringing back furs, mail and rotating personnel, serving an area then not otherwise accessible.

After vour furs had been auctioned off by the Company, thc money went directly to the store and they told you how much your furs had been worth, though there was no way of verifying it.

When the French took to opening trading posts upriver in order to catch the Indians before they reached the HBC posts with their furs, the Bay men on the spot sought authority from London to go still farther upriver.