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First used by the Dene, Slave River salt deposits became a critical resource for HBC fur traders. 

Guided by Indigenous knowledge and European navigational science, fur trader Alexander Mackenzie embarked on a perilous journey across the Great Divide.

Pondering the purpose of a tiny tankard.

Heyday of the fur trade comes to life at stone fort.

Fancy dinnerware is probably not the first thing to come to mind in regard to the fur trade. 

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.

A ‘rare and extraordinary’ illness ravaged the crew of Jens Munk’s 1619 voyage in search of the Northwest Passage.