Articles related to "Fur Trading Business"In the fur trade, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company is in competition with the American Fur Company, Hudson's Bay, and smaller new companies.
Women's participation in Canada's fur trade was varied and extensive, and generally overlooked in official records.
Following the 1832 Mountain Man Rendezvous a battle breaks out between Mountain Men fur trappers and the Gros Ventres, a division of the Blackfeet Indians.
Married to a man over twice her age, Frances Simpson came to Canada by ship and to Manitoba's Red River by canoe. Her life in Canada was lonely and difficult.
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