Over time, much of the fur trade history has been romanticized to a … The Hudson Bay Company built more posts in the interior because furs were being taken at the Indian camps by the North West Company. Arthur W. Kumm Memorial Book Fund for Books on California and the West. 1682 Some historians, seeking to explain the term castor gras, have assumed that coat beaver was rich in human oils from having been worn so long (much of the top-hair was worn away through usage, exposing the valuable under-wool), and that this is what made it attractive to the hatters. In the case of the fur trade, this meant that the French were forced to learn from the political and cultural meanings with which Indians imbued the fur trade. Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America, and the South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands. These furs were mainly supplied by Indian traders, especially the Huron and Ottawa tribes. Meanwhile, the New England fur trade expanded, not only inland, but northward along the coast into the Bay of Fundy region. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Russians began to settle in Siberia, a region rich in many mammal fur species, such as Arctic fox, lynx, sable, sea otter and stoat (ermine). The fur trade did not die entirely from a lack of furs. The North American fur trade, an aspect of the international fur trade, was the acquisition, trade, exchange, and sale of animal furs in North America. However, the Métis, who are sometimes considered “children of the fur trade,” became skilled hunters and trappers as well. Alexander Henry received exclusive rights to trade on Lake Superior. It also marked the end of the historic fur trade. 1673 1834 The fur trade became one of the main economic ventures in North America attracting, at various times, competition among the French, British, Dutch, Spanish, and Russians. Materials available at the Library of Michigan. The fur trade was a vital industry in the Great Lakes region long before Michigan became a state. The American Fur Co. received $3,500 of the $4,700 given to the Ojibwe. During the summer, promyshlenniki would set up a summer camp to stockpile grain and fish, and many engaged in agricultural work for extra money. One, with Radisson aboard, had to turn back, but the other, the Nonsuch, with Groseilliers, did penetrate the bay. Reducing them to simple economic or cultural dichotomies, as the formalists and substantivists had done, was a fruitless simplification that obscured more than it revealed. As the sea otter population was depleted, the maritime fur trade diversified and was transformed, tapping new markets and commodities while continuing to focus on the Northwest Coast and China. The North West Company operated 117 trading posts. During the 1500’s Europeans explored the east cost of mainland North America. In Michif, the word for beaver is “aen kaastor.” At the start of the fur trade, the First Nations did most of the trapping. They brought back furs (mainly beaver) and sold them, sometimes by private treaty but usually by public auction. Check with your local library for other holdings. 1782 "Americans, Mexicans, Métis: A Community Approach to the Comparative Study of North American Frontiers." After this time many Frenchmen moved into the region and began trading directly with the Indians. Mackenize did not agree with some of the policies of McTavish. Brown, Jennifer S.H. If the Native Americans were a tribe with a patrilineal kinship system, they considered children born to a white father to be white, in a type of hypodescent classification, although the Native mother and tribe might care for them. A small pox epidemic killed thousands throughout the Northwest. The treaty also opened New York for direct shipment of furs from Detroit and Michilimackinac. 1774 The Americans purchased the Louisiana territory from the French. Browse related items. According to the National Cowboy Museum, the fur trade was largely responsible for opening up the West to white settlers. The same pelt could fetch enough to buy dozens of axe heads in England, making the fur trade extremely profitable for the Europeans. 1634 Jean Nicolet traveled through the Great Lakes to Green Bay on what is now Lake Michigan. The passive approach involved setting traps, while the active approach involved the use of hunting-dogs and of bows-and-arrows. Trade regulations were returned to the colonies, exclusive licenses were abolished. British and Americans entered during the 1780s, focusing on what is now the coast of British Columbia. By the 1630’s furs were regularly leaving New France for Europe. [34] The indigenous culture was not however overwhelmed, it rather flourished, while simultaneously undergoing rapid change. Start at call number: F592 .H37 2010. [31] The largest producer of mink and foxes is Nova Scotia which in 2012 generated revenues of nearly $150 million and accounted for one quarter of all agricultural production in the Province.[32]. They traded knives, hatchets, and beads to the Indians for fur and meat. Missionaries arrived at Lake Pokegama. The War of 1812 ended. [3], Originally, Russia exported raw furs, consisting in most cases of the pelts of martens, beavers, wolves, foxes, squirrels and hares. 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On the east coast, the Mi’kmaq first encountered Europeans as explorers and then, in the 1500s, as occasional fishermen who, as time went on, began to stay for longer periods to dry their fish on shore. Read more. Alexander Mackenzie successfully crossed the continent to the Pacific Ocean. This charter established the Hudson's Bay Company and granted it a monopoly to trade into all the rivers that emptied into Hudson Bay. But given New York’s current debate around fur, we thought we’d take a look at the long history of the city’s fur trade. In 1599 he acquired a monopoly from Henry IV and tried to establish a colony near the mouth of the Saguenay River at Tadoussac. 1794 Brown, Jennifer S.H. 1787 Consolidation talks between North West Company and XY Company begin. Much of the fur is believed to have originated in Canada, smuggled south by entrepreneurs who wished to avoid the colony's government-imposed monopoly there. [15] From 1620 to 1680 a total of 15,983 trappers operated in Siberia. [14], The hunting season began around the time of the first snow in October or November and continued until early spring. He claimed all the lands drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries for France. The border war still continued between the Hudson Bay Co. and the American Fur Co. 1789 [30] The fur farming industry is present in many parts of Canada. Animal rights organizations oppose the fur trade, citing that animals are brutally killed and sometimes skinned alive. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. The post at Lake Pokegama was sold to a government sponsored farmer. The North West Trading Company began construction of trading boats on the Great Lakes. They resorted to illegal means of getting furs for themselves, including bribing customs officials to allow them to personally collect yasak, extorting natives by exacting yasak multiple times over, or requiring tribute from independent trappers. Its trade developed in the Early Middle Ages ( 500–1000 AD/CE ), first through exchanges at posts around the Baltic and Black seas. From 1670 onwards, the Hudson's Bay Company sent two or three trading ships into the bay every year. 1815 Ramsey Crooks kept control of the Northern Outfit, but now traded with both Indians and whites. (Image via Wikimedia Commons) The mariners who sailed the coast or ran their vessels tentatively into the estuaries and harbors of Oregon initiated inexorable forces of change. Read more. However, some family groups remained in the St. Croix Valley. The North West Company withdrew. A Great Lakes Fur Trade Coloring BookA Great Lakes Fur Trade Coloring Book. By 1620 Russia dominated the land from the Urals eastward to the Yenisey valley and to the Altai Mountains in the south, comprising about 1.25 million square miles of land. First agreements were made between partners that would become the North West Company, the first joint stock company in Canada and possibly North America. Samuel Champlain made the first planned move into the interior of mainland America. Digital Bookplates Exhibit. Simon McTavish tried to lease transportation rights through Hudson Bay but was refused. Furs from Russian America were mostly sold to China via the Mongolian trading town of Kyakhta, which had been opened to Russian trade by the 1727 Treaty of Kyakhta.[37]. In 1834 John Jacob Astor, who had created the huge monopoly of the American Fur Company, withdrew from the fur trade. John C. Phillips and J.W. The pelts were called castor gras in French and "coat beaver" in English, and were soon recognized by the newly developed felt-hat making industry as particularly useful for felting. Many of their mixed-race descendants developed their own culture, now called Métis in Canada, based then on fur trapping and other activities on the frontier. With the end of the fur trade era, many traders entered the new businesses of real estate, lumbering, mining or railroading. During the first part of the nineteenth century, the European fur trade increased the contact between Europeans and Indians in what is now the state of Washington. Such efforts ceased as France strengthened its presence in Canada. 1811 A triangular trade network emerged linking the Pacific Northwest coast, China, the Hawaiian Islands (only recently discovered by the Western world), Europe, and the United States (especially New England). He returned to Lake Superior and traveled up the northwest shore and built a post on the Kaministikquai River. 1818 War broke out between France and England. As they penetrated deeper into Siberia, traders built outposts or winter lodges called zimovya [ ru ] where they lived and collected fur tribute from native tribes. Canada was built on the fur trade, which supplied European demand for pelts from animals such as the beaver (Castor canadensis) to make hats. Furs had become hard to find at a number of times during the fur trade era. The maritime fur trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. And a new people, the Métis, emerged as the fur trade reached its height in the 1700s and 1800s. 1812 Inside a furrier’s on Broadway, 1892, via NYPL. 1793 Officials enforced yasak through coercion and by taking hostages, usually the tribe chiefs or members of the chief's family. Jump to navigation Jump to search. There were 16 shares in the company. Fort Union Trading Post was an epicenter for trade between tribes and European fur traders. The third conference, held in 1978, is of particular note; the ninth conference, which was held in St. Louis in 2006, has not yet published its papers. An attempt was made to push the Ojibwe off Dakota lands, but within 50 years the Ojibwe succeeded in driving the Dakota out of their eastern woodlands. The interracial relationships resulted in a two-tier mixed-race class, in which descendants of fur traders and chiefs achieved prominence in some Canadian social, political, and economic circles. Two French citizens, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, had traded with great success west of Lake Superior in 1659–60, but upon their return to Canada, most of their furs were seized by the authorities. He continued working for them until 1821. The Fox had nearly been exterminated by the French and their Indian allies. "Orkneymen in the HBC, 1780–1821." [4], European contact with North America, with its vast forests and wildlife, particularly the beaver, led to the continent becoming a major supplier in the 17th century of fur pelts for the fur felt hat and fur trimming and garment trades of Europe. Application has been deleted. By 1614 the Dutch were sending vessels to secure large economic returns from fur trading. Indian trappers brought furs from the interior to the St. Lawrence River and traded there for manufactured goods from Europe. The furs were mostly traded in China for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese goods, which were then sold in Europe and the United States. In its late period the maritime fur trade was largely conducted by the British Hudson's Bay Company and the Russian-American Company. Each member of the group set at least 10 traps and the vatagi divided into smaller groups of 2 to 3 men who cooperated to maintain certain traps. Jahrhundert die finanzstärkste und politisch einflussreichste Pelzhandelsgesellschaft der Vereinigten Staaten. The western Great Lakes and all land north of the Ohio River became part of Quebec and subject to its laws and regulations. French explorers, like Samuel de Champlain, voyageurs, and Coureur des bois, such as Étienne Brûlé, Radisson, La Salle, and Le Sueur, while seeking routes through the continent, established relationships with Amerindians and continued to expand the trade of fur pelts for items considered 'common' by the Europeans. In Wisconsin the Winnebago tribes blocked the fur trade routes. The Métis in the Canadian Red River region were so numerous that they developed a creole language and culture. River Road Publications, 1993. Often, the political benefits of the fur trade became more important than the economic aspects. 1840 In 1599 he acquired a monopoly from Henry IV and tried to establish a colony near the mouth of the Saguenay River at Tadoussac. 1754 Time-line of Canada’s Commercial Fur Trade. European demand for furs subsided as fashion trends shifted. Many independent traders entered the area and Henry Sibley sent traders in from the south. During late summer or early fall the vatagi left their hunting grounds, surveyed the area, and set up a winter camp. Lower-class descendants formed the majority of the separate Métis culture based on hunting, trapping and farming. John Jacob Astor became involved in the fur trade. The Natives used the iron axe heads to replace stone axe heads which they had made by hand in a labor-intensive process, so they derived substantial benefits from the trade as well. The fur trade in Wisconsin reached its height in the last half of the 1700s because the British had less restrictive trade policies than the French and allowed more people to trade. Etiene Brule arrived at the eastern end of Lake Superior. Trigger, Bruce G., Morantz, Toby Elaine, and Louise Dechêne. The war between England and the United States disrupted trade all across the continent. Expanding European settlement displaced native communities from the best hunting grounds. The coast south of Alaska saw fierce competition between, and among, British and American trading vessels. The New England textile industry in turn had a large effect on slavery in the United States, increasing the demand for cotton and helping make possible the rapid expansion of the cotton plantation system across the Deep South. Following Ray's position, Bruce M. White also helped to create a more nuanced picture of the complex ways in which native populations fit new economic relationships into existing cultural patterns.[27]. It did not end until 1833 when the American Fur Co. abandoned its posts along the border in exchange for an annual cash payment from Hudson Bay. Simon McTavish died. 1836 Alexander Mackenzie searched for the North West Passage and instead reached the Arctic Ocean. Because trade was so politically important, the Europeans tried to regulate it in hopes (often futile) of preventing abuse. Indians would trade the pelts of small animals, such as mink, for knives and other iron-based products, or for textiles. Traders started to exploit the region northwest of Grand Portage, but cut-throat competition reduced the profits. 1608 Samuel de Champlain establishes North America’s first fur trading. Hunting expeditions lasted two to three years on average but occasionally longer. It lasted until the middle to late 19th century. This period of time can be roughly divided into three sections, the “French Era” from 1600 to 1760. During this time Alexander Mackenzie broke from the North West Company over bad feelings with McTavish. View full page. In January the North West Company was formed. The American Fur Co. hired ex-North West traders to work for them. He and his partner, Jean Baptiste Cadotte, built a post at Chequamagon and sent outfits into the Fon du Lac region. Daniel Greysolon, Sieur Du Luth used the Savannah Portage to reach the interior of Minnesota and Mille Lac. Other English merchants also traded for furs around the Saint Lawrence River region in the 1630s, but these were officially discouraged. [6] As Muscovy gained more power in the 15th century and proceeded in the "gathering of the Russian lands", the Muscovite state began to rival the Novgorodians in the North. The start of unregulated trade increased the use of liquor in the fur trade. Radisson and Grosseiliers made an unlicensed trip into the interior. John Sayer joined a one-year partnership and built a post on the St. Louis River. The maritime fur trade was pioneered by the Russians, working east from Kamchatka along the Aleutian Islands to the southern coast of Alaska. The term "North West" was rarely spelled as the single word "Northwest", as is common today. Johnathon Carver traveled west in search of the North West passage. Today the importance of the fur trade has diminished; it is based on pelts produced at fur farms and regulated fur-bearer trapping, but has become controversial. Some of the partners left the company forming the General Company of Lake Superior and the South. For the band, see, Topics (overviews, concepts, issues, cases), Media (books, films, periodicals, albums), Social histories: women, Métis, voyageurs, Papers of the North American Fur Trade Conferences, Abraham Rotstein, "Karl Polanyi’s Concept of Non-Market Trade,", Bruce M. White, "Give Us a Little Milk": The Social and Cultural Meanings of Gift Giving in the Lake Superior Fur Trade", in. Grand Portage was to be the company’s rendezvous point for the next 20 years. [36] The British and American maritime fur traders took their furs to the Chinese port of Guangzhou (Canton), where they worked within the established Canton System. They traded with the natives they met. Their post were located on Hudson Bay and the Indians brought their furs there. 1837 In 1552 Ivan IV, the Tsar of All the Russias, took a significant step towards securing Russian hegemony in Siberia when he sent a large army to attack the Kazan Tartars and ended up obtaining the territory from the Volga to the Ural Mountains. 1849 In 1834 this was defined as most of the United States west of the Mississippi River, where mountain men and traders from Mexico freely operated. "[24] Indians were savvy traders, but they had a fundamentally different conception of property, which confounded their European trade partners. The demand lasted nearly 200 years. They claimed all the lands that drained into Hudson Bay as their trading area. Because of the long hunting season and the fact that passage back to Russia was difficult and costly, beginning around the 1650s–1660s many promyshlenniki chose to stay and settle in Siberia. The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern period, furs of boreal, polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most valued.Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America, and the South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands. 1842 Before the European colonization of the Americas, Russia was a major supplier of fur pelts to Western Europe and parts of Asia. This page was last edited on 8 January 2021, at 17:03. The demand for beaver wool felt hats was such that the beaver in Europe and European Russia had largely disappeared through exploitation. "This trading system," Ray explained, "is impossible to label neatly as ‘gift trade', or ‘administered trade', or ‘market trade', since it embodies elements of all these forms. He was one of the first to search for the North West Passage to the Far East. After the United States became independent, it regulated trading with Native Americans by the Indian Intercourse Act, first passed on July 22, 1790. In spite of this, unlicensed traders continued to operate. Jay’s Treaty gave reciprocal trading rights to British and American traders, each were allowed to cross the border to trade on the other’s territory. During the 15th century Moscow began subjugating many native tribes. Sailors began to trade metal implements (particularly knives) for the natives' well-worn pelts. On the other hand, a trading company provided hired fur-trappers with the money needed for transportation, food, and supplies, and once the hunt was finished, the employer received two-thirds of the pelts and the remaining ones were sold and the proceeds divided evenly among the hired laborers. Peter Pond traveled to the Athabaska where he gathered so many furs he was forced to leave some behind. After some setbacks, a number of English investors were found to back another attempt for Hudson Bay. [9], Russian conquerors treated the natives of Siberia as easily exploited enemies who were inferior to them. The beaver was bought mainly for the English hat-making trade, while the fine furs went to the Netherlands and Germany. 1766 [5], From as early as the 10th century, merchants and boyars of Novgorod had exploited the fur resources "beyond the portage", a watershed at the White Lake that represents the door to the entire northwestern part of Eurasia. At this point the phrase "ruler of Obdor, Konda, and all Siberian lands" became part of the title of the Tsar in Moscow. Members of an independent vataga cooperated and shared all necessary work associated with fur trapping, including making and setting traps, building forts and camps, stockpiling firewood and grain, and fishing. Alexander Mackenzie joined the XY Company. This was accomplished by about 1840. 1854 Category:History of fur trade in Kastoria. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 prohibited sale by European settlers of alcohol to the Indians in Canada, following the British takeover of the territory after it defeated France in the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in North America). They even allied themselves with the Dakota with whom they traded goods. And History Colorado confirms that fur trapping was hard, grueling work. 1850 He claimed all the lands for France. 1804 Simon McTavish and the Frobisher brothers hold six shares. Small partnerships were formed to avoid or oppose the competition. Rich brought the economic purview down a level, focusing on the role of trading companies and their men as the ones who "opened up" much of Canada's territories, instead of on the role of the nation-state in opening up the continent. Furs were being dispatched from Virginia soon after 1610, and the Plymouth Colony was sending substantial amounts of beaver to its London agents through the 1620s and 1630s. In, Faragher, John Mack. Subsequently the XY Company formed from several existing companies. Promyshlenniki checked traps daily, resetting them or replacing bait whenever necessary. London merchants tried to take over France's fur trade in the St Lawrence River valley. Could this have been Grand Portage? Occasionally, hunters also followed sable tracks to their burrows, around which they placed nets, and waited for the sable to emerge. At first, Russians were content to trade with the natives, exchanging goods like pots, axes, and beads for the prized sables that the natives did not value, but greater demand for furs led to violence and force becoming the primary means of obtaining the furs. Richard White, while admitting that the formalist/substantivist debate was "old, and now tired," attempted to reinvigorate the substantivist position. Mammal winter pelts were prized for warmth, particularly animal pelts for beaver wool felt hats, which were an expensive status symbol in Europe. After this the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers became a major transportation route to the western trading regions. Hosted by William Godwin! 1762 The Ojibwe were supposed to move to the Crow Wing River. Learn more about Lewis. Historically, the fur trade played a singular role in the development of Canada. 1816 All trading rights and privileges became British. Trade was officially abandoned for 20 years. ©2021 White Oak Historical Society - 1655 Division St, Deer River, MN 56636 - (218) 246-9393, The Beaver Fur Hat – The Fashion of Europe, The Bourgeois – Gentlemen of the Fur Trade, The Canoe – The Workhorse of the Fur Trade, Food for Thought – What the Fur Traders Ate, Women in the Fur Trade – The Story of Broken Toe, KAXE Interviews the White Oak Dog Sled Race Committee, John Tanner – A Rare Glimpse into the Age of the Fur Trade, 24th Annual White Oak Society Rendezvous and History Festival, whiteoakhistoricalsociety.org/event-calendar…, whiteoakhistoricalsociety.org/event/black-fr…, whiteoakhistoricalsociety.org/white-oak-sled…, whiteoakhistoricalsociety.org/historical-lib…. [13], Russian fur trappers, called promyshlenniki, hunted in one of two types of bands of 10–15 men, called vatagi [ ru ]. [23] Starting in the 1950s, however, substantivists such as Karl Polanyi challenged these ideas, arguing instead that primitive societies could engage in alternatives to traditional Western market trade; namely, gift trade and administered trade. There are no upcoming events at this time. The fur trade brought them useful tools as well as hard times. The South West Company was formed by J.J. Astor and the head of the North West Company William McGillivray. Oregon History: Land-based Fur Trade and Exploration. The trade boomed around the turn of the 19th century. Carolinan traders stocked axe heads, knives, awls, fish hooks, cloth of various type and color, woolen blankets, linen shirts, kettles, jewelry, glass beads, muskets, ammunition and powder to exchange on a 'per pelt' basis. Sign Up for White Oak's Valentine's Day Medieval Banquet! In a search for the prized sea otter pelts, first used in China, and later for the northern fur seal, the Russian Empire expanded into North America, notably Alaska. 1767 Trade throughout the upper Mississippi region was disrupted. London's access to high-quality furs was greatly increased with the takeover of New Amsterdam, whereupon the fur trade of that colony (now called New York) fell into English hands with the 1667 Treaty of Breda. 1670 Hudson’s Bay Company chartered as the first company to trade in fur . "[29] White argued instead that the fur trade occupied part of a "middle ground" in which Europeans and Indians sought to accommodate their cultural differences. This is a brief description of the most significant events in the 250 years during which the fur trade flourished. The high prices that sable, black fox, and marten furs could generate in international markets spurred a "fur fever" in which many Russians moved to Siberia as independent trappers. 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