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Canoe museum in Peterborough, Ontario, is making waves.

Professor shows how French Canadians and Indigenous women saved the West coast from the Americans.

The Hudson’s Bay Company produced Christmas gift hampers containing liquor and smoking supplies.

A weighty 1950s-era cash register was used at a Northern store.

Crooked knife blades were some of the earliest trade goods brought to North America from Europe by the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Hudson’s Bay Company employee George Simpson McTavish Jr., the son of a Scottish fur trader, brought back a pair of moccasins from Fort Churchill around 1887.

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Many Canadians have stories that wind back to families with Indigenous heritage in both Africa and what is now Canada.

Carrioles allowed trappers to transport supplies and furs throughout the winter. Pulled by dogs, they were sometimes used to transport high-profile people.

John Bockstoce’s White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic explores a period from the turn of the last century to the early 1930s, during which a flourishing trade in white fox furs led to economic boom times for trappers and traders in much of the Arctic.