![]() He has a Ph D in environmental planning and policy from MIT. We have had our historians of the fur trade, most noticeably the great Harold Innis, who published his book, Fur Trade in Canada in 1931.īut the story is less well known in the United States, especially from an American angle-which is something Eric Jay Dolin is trying to change.Įric Dolin certainly has scientific and scholarly credential. This trade fed the enormous appetite of Europeans for the warm and often extravagant coats, hats and sleigh blankets that fashion and society demanded. ![]() Many of us in Canada grew up with stories of the French explorers, the voyageurs and the coureurs de bois, the French Canadian woodsmen who traveled through New France and into the interior of North America along with, let's not forget, the Indians, the people of the First nations who were the backbone of this trade in fur, skin and pelts. In fact, trapping beaver, sea otter and buffalo-among other animals-helped spur European settlement in North America-in both the US and Canada. "Get the furs while they last." That was the rallying cry for many trappers on this continent from the 16th century onward during the long years of the fur trade. Eric Jay Dolin tells us how the fur trade settled Canada and the United States. Raccoons and buffalo, and other animals, helped carve out the European ![]()
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