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In this activity, students will explore key turning points in the fur trade and determine the impact of these events on different groups in Canada.

In this lesson, students will play a class game of “I Have... Who Has?” and create a timeline for Canada’s fur trade.

These lessons will provide students with the opportunity to explore and investigate interactions among European, Black, and Indigenous people, with a focus on delving deeper into the often untold experience of Black fur traders.

Trade axes were an important and highly prized trade good throughout the fur trade era. 

British Columbia’s fur brigade trails abound with history.

The Hudson’s Bay Company has been selling alcoholic spirits since its inception.

Book Review: Between 1925 and 1928, Einar Odd Mortensen traded for furs in the region David Thompson called “The Rat Country,” the swampy boreal lands north of the large Manitoba lakes.

In this lesson, students will learn about life as a voyageur’s family during the Fur Trade and then will play the Fur Trade Game where they collect “furs” to trade for items from a “trading post.”

Its exceptional quality is a reflection of the expert eye and skills of Lydia Catherine Christie.

Hudson’s Bay Company chevron trade beads were seen as symbols of friendship and given to Indigenous people as gifts, to forge alliances or treaties, and to permit passage.