Sentences with phrase «by fur traders»

The area was originally settled in the early 19th century by fur traders and was established as a city in 1865.

Don't worry the guides do all the rowing; you sit back and enjoy while exploring all the spectacular scenery drifting down a route that was used by fur traders many years ago.

Sea otters, once bountiful along the California coast, were virtually wiped out by fur traders in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The husky was later brought to Alaska by fur traders for arctic races.

Originally settled by fur traders, the area's economy is now centered primarily on education and small business.

The animals, which feed in the lush kelp beds offshore, were hunted almost to extinction by fur traders in the 19th century.

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Founded by the Montreal - based North West Trading Company, Fort Gibraltar commemorates the era of the fur traders and all the roles played by First Nations people, the Metis, the settlers and explorers, and, of course, the Voyageurs.

It's home to most of St. Paul's 500 residents, the majority of them Aleuts whose ancestors were brought here by Russian traders more than two centuries ago to work the northern fur seal killing fields.

Evidence from archaeological digs suggests that aboriginal Aleuts were wiping out local otter populations as much as 2,500 years ago, and European fur traders all but finished the job by the end of the 19th century.

There's also a strange moment where Bishop is introduced torturing a lickspittle fur trader by garrotting him with a length of wire that's been tied to a wall — incidentally, the exact method employed by Indonesian warlord Anwar Congo in Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing.

A Russian fur trader by the name of William Goosak is believed to be the first to take these dogs to new parts of the world.

One stroll, for instance, could take in Downtown where attractions include the Museum of Fine Arts, the prestigious McGill University (founded from a bequest by a Glasgow - born fur trader), Sainte - Catherine Street for the major department stores (at Ogilvy's a bagpiper still plays every day at noon) and the Golden Square Mile with its fine Victorian homes which were once home to the country's Anglophone, predominantly Scottish, upper class.

Founded in about 1769 as Les Petites Côtes, or «The Little Hills» in French, by Louis Blanchette, a French - Canadian fur trader, when the area was nominally ruled by Spain following the Seven Years» War, it is the third - oldest city in Missouri.

The land was possessed by French fur traders Antoine Laffond and Bernard Laffond as early as January 24, 1807.

The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France.