Articles related to "Fur Trading Companies"

Packing up their three children, the Héberts sailed across the ocean to New France. With little to work with, the family made a good life caring for natives, settlers

Women's participation in Canada's fur trade was varied and extensive, and generally overlooked in official records.

The Mountain Man rendezvous of 1832 was held at Pierre's Hole. Hundreds of mountain men, trappers, Indians and fur company traders met to sell furs or trade for supplies.

Oregon's Willamette Valley was the first area to be settled. The Native population had been cleared out by epidemics opening up the area to settlement.

David Thompson has surveyed more than 3,9 million square kilometers of land in western Canada. The David Thompson's Trail follows in his footsteps.