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What a Beaver Bought<br />
For a while, each trading post offered different things in exchange for furs.<br />
Smart Aboriginal people shopped around for the best deal. Eventually, Hudson’s<br />
Bay factors caught on and set up what they called a “standard of trade” so that<br />
everyone used the same system. Here’s how it worked in Fort Albany in 1733.<br />
or<br />
two combs<br />
a pistol<br />
or<br />
20 fish<br />
hooks<br />
or<br />
a pair<br />
of pants<br />
or<br />
two red<br />
feathers<br />
or<br />
3/4 of a<br />
pound of<br />
buttons<br />
two mirrors<br />
six thimbles<br />
or<br />
eight knives<br />
1653<br />
1890S<br />
1909 1653<br />
1930 1653<br />
1970 1653<br />
1987 1653<br />
Fur farms<br />
start<br />
operating,<br />
mainly in<br />
P.E.I., to raise<br />
mink, fox and<br />
other animals<br />
12 Kayak #54 december 2015<br />
HBC opens its<br />
first trading post<br />
in the eastern<br />
Arctic, mostly for<br />
Arctic fox fur<br />
18,000 square<br />
kilometres in<br />
Quebec is set<br />
aside to protect<br />
the beaver<br />
population, which<br />
has dropped<br />
drastically but<br />
recovers in less<br />
than 25 years<br />
HBC<br />
moves<br />
its head<br />
office from<br />
London,<br />
England to<br />
Winnipeg<br />
HBC<br />
sells its<br />
northern<br />
stores and<br />
fur auction<br />
houses