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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.

Book Review: This book chronicles the lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater, a legendary Indigenous couple, at the turn of the 20th century.

Was P.E.I. railroaded into joining Canada? 

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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An historical film from Hollywood's golden age — about fur trading?

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

An ulu with a slate cutting edge might have been used to scrape animal skins, to chop meat, and to make clothing.