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Their contributions were often overlooked in official histories, but Indigenous men and women played crucial roles in the success of the fur trade.

Canada's History web editor Tanja Hütter thinks Thanadelthur is a positive example of 1700s-era girl power.

The Europeans relied on surveying instruments to chart their journeys. One important instrument was the sextant.

Book Review: The editors of Towards a New Ethnohistory draw from twenty years of research by young scholars working with the Stó:lō Nation in British Columbia.

Women embraced the abundance of colours of glass beads to create beautiful designs, like this elaborate and symmetrical floral pattern.

An intrepid navigator asserted Canada’s Arctic sovereignty.

Aboard the ships Eaglet and Nonsuch, a pair of ambitious French adventurers set sail for Hudson Bay in hopes of striking it rich in the fur trade.

A tribute and a record of northern journey which places this retiring fur trade officer in the ranks of Most Celebrated Arctic Travellers.

From a network of trading posts to an international retail icon, HBC underwent a remarkable transformation in the twentieth century.