Sentences with phrase «by fur trading»

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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.

In areas of British Columbia and Alberta not yet accessed by road or rail, boats were the primary form of transportation for large amounts of freight or passengers since the days of the fur trade.

The American mink was brought over to the UK for the fur trade and has been breeding in the wild since the 1950s due to escapes from fur farms and in some cases releases by activists.

This same site was a gin mill, where furs were traded for liquor and such by Sephardic Portuguese to the natives during the first intrusion by white men in the area.

As a young inventor in Massachusetts, he'd been fascinated by old - style bateaux, fur - trading boats with shallow drafts for negotiating small rivers and flat bottoms to provide stability when heavily laden with pelts.

As Stefansson pointed out a long time ago, if humans couldn't be fuelled by fat the fur trade would have been impossible, because the voyageurs were living off pemmican.

Pro tip: If your festivities are a little more formal, you can dress this outfit up by trading your cardi for a fur coat and your boots for heels.

Along the way, there's diversions and complications featuring French fur trappers, a native tribe seeking a lost daughter, a military encampment run by captain of the fur trading party Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson), and the part where Leo eats a real liver, for real, he really did it guys.

They were pushed west by the Ojibwe as the Ojibwe were pressured by the westward expansion of the fur trade.

Enchanted by its gorgeous coat, the new breed took the fur trade by storm.

An ongoing investigation of the fur trade by Humane Society International, an arm of the HSUS, resulted in this information, as listed on their website: «In a particularly grisly twist, the skins of brutally slaughtered dogs in Thailand are mixed with other bits of skin to produce rawhide chew toys for pet dogs.

Starting its life with the name of «Fort John» and being used as a fur trading post in 1834 and eventually taken over by the US Army in 1849, this post was used as a stopping point along the Oregon Trail, an infamously difficult route for migrants from the East coast to find a new life in the as - before untamed West.

What to Expect: Rugged inlets and cliffs topped by former logging and fur - trading towns make this an impressive ride along some of California's most pristine Pacific coastline, another bucket - list favorite for fans of the famous stretch of PCH to the south.

You may take advantage of an optional canoe trip on Lake McGillivray, where, surrounded by beautiful scenery, you learn about Canada's fur trade.

Now perhaps this is just the musings of a city girl (read: someone whose food is not imperiled by hungry foxes and doesn't rely on the fur trade), but it's hard to believe that in some parts of the world, these wonderful creatures have nearly been hunted into extinction.

Introduced by MP Nathaniel Erskine - Smith, the bill included basic measures to strengthen the animal welfare provisions in our Criminal Code, stop Canadian trade in products of shark finning and cat and dog fur, and require labeling of fur products by species.

He told them they created the fur trade and forestry industries as major sources of income and development for First Nations, now they were shutting it all down because they were bullied by environmentalists who offered no evidence to support their demands.

Wisconsin was a crossing ground for the next hundred years for the fur trade by the French.

By the late 1820s, Midland was established as a fur trading post of the American Fur Company supervised by the post at SaginaBy the late 1820s, Midland was established as a fur trading post of the American Fur Company supervised by the post at Saginaby the post at Saginaw.