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A fur trading post was established on the site from 1651 – 1659, but Île Royale languished under French rule as attention was focused on the St. Lawrence River / Great Lakes colony of Canada ( which then comprised parts of what is now Quebec, Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois ), Louisiana ( which encompassed the current Mississippi Valley states and part of Texas ), and the small agricultural settlements of mainland Acadia.
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:* St. Louis has annual festivals in both the Soulard neighborhood and the former French village of Carondelet, Missouri which include reenactments of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as reconstructed French fur trading posts.
In 1804, at the annual meeting of the North West Company in Kaministiquia, Thompson was made a full partner of the company and spent the next few seasons based there managing the fur trading operations but still finding time to expand his surveys of the waterways around Lake Superior.
Thompson mapped and established trading posts in Northwestern Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Western Canada ; including Kootenae House and Saleesh House ; the first trading post west of the Rockies in Montana extending North West Company fur trading territories.
This was a response by the North West Company to the plans of John Jacob Astor to send a ship around the Americas to establish a fur trading post.
A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada and the United States including the Bay, Lord & Taylor, Zellers, and Home Outfitters.
Called " factories " ( because the " factor ," i. e., a person acting as a mercantile agent did business from there ), these posts operated in the manner of the Dutch fur trading operations in New Netherland.
Logo on old fur trading fort.
The officers essentially ran the fur trading posts.
The largest settlement was New France, with the towns of Quebec City ( 1608 ) and Montreal ( fur trading post in 1611, Roman Catholic mission established in 1639, and colony founded in 1642 ).
He later formed subsidiaries: the Pacific Fur Company, and the Southwest Fur Company ( in which Canadians had a part ), in order to control fur trading in the Columbia River and Great Lakes areas.
Astor's fur trading ventures were again disrupted when the British captured his trading posts during the War of 1812.
The United States adapted the former Spanish facility at Fort Bellefontaine as a fur trading post near St. Louis in 1804 for business with the Sauk and Fox.
During the next few centuries Novgorodians engaged in fur trading with the local population and collected tribute from Yugra and Great Perm, slowly expanding southwards.
** Fort Vancouver, 19th-century fur trading post, located in present-day Vancouver, Washington
Thompson was looking to establish fur trading posts for the Hudson's Bay Company of British North America ( now Canada ).
The Hudson's Bay Company discouraged unions between their fur traders and First Nations and Inuit woman, while the North West Company ( the English-speaking Quebecer fur trading company ) supported such marriages.
Between 1810 and 1840, the region attracted fur trading companies that vied for control of the lucrative beaver fur trade.
After 1810, American and British fur trading companies were in competition for control of the North American fur trade, and American sovereignty over the region was not secured until the signing of the Oregon Treaty in 1846.
As the demand for beaver fur declined and the various regions of the American West became depleted of beaver due to over trapping, American fur trading companies folded ; however, individual mountain men continued to trap beaver in the region until about 1840.
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This notice was found later that year by Astorians looking to establish an inland fur post, contributing to their selection of a more northerly site at Fort Okanogan.
In 1631, the Dutch West India Company ( WIC ) suspended Minuit from his post for reasons that are unclear, but probably for abetting the landowning patroons who were engaging in illegal fur trade and otherwise enriching themselves against the interests and orders of the West India Company.
The treaty granted the Hudson's Bay Company navigation rights on the Columbia River for supplying their fur posts, clear titles to their trading post properties allowing them to be sold later if they wanted, and left the British with good anchorages at Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia.
Fort Hall was an old fur trading post located on the Snake River.
The island's rich fur trading potential led the fur-trader John Meares to set up a single-building trading post near the native village of Yuquot ( Friendly Cove ), at the entrance to Nootka Sound.
In 1819, Jacob Smith, a fur trader on cordial terms with both the local Ojibwas and the territorial government founded a trading post in Flint itself.
Astoria, Oregon's oldest city, was established as a fur trading post in 1811 and named after John Jacob Astor.
Joe Rolette, who started a fur post for the American Fur Company in Pembina, and Norman W. Kittson, were two " explorers " that predominately opened this area by developing the Red River Ox Cart trails and broadening the use of the ox carts.
It was established in 1865 as one of the original nine counties of Montana, and named in 1882 after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., a fur trader who established a trading post that became Fort Benton, which was once an important port on the Missouri River.
The oldest European town in Indiana, Vincennes was officially established in 1732 as a second French fur trading post in this area.
A trading post was built to conduct business with the Indians, particularly in the lucrative fur trade.
Sometime between 1790 and 1800, a French-Canadian trader named Joseph La Framboise established a fur trading post at the mouth of Duck Lake.
In the mid-19th century, a fur trader named Donald McDonald started a trading post on the east shore of Lake Ottertail, which he called Ottertail City.
In 1797, the North West Company established a fur trading post approximately 15 miles northwest of Badger Township at the confluence of the Red Lake River and the Clearwater River, near the current site of Red Lake Falls.
Red Lake Falls was the site of a North West Company fur post as early as 1796 or 1797, making it one of the oldest sites of European occupation in the State of Minnesota.
A French Canadian fur trader, Jean Baptiste Cadotte, partner of the noted British-Canadian fur trader, Alexander Henry the elder, established the post as part of a strategy to ward off Hudson's Bay Company intrusion into the Red River Valley.
The post was abandoned early in the 1800s, as British fur traders withdrew from United States territory.
" Alexander Faribault Before the Story: 1806-1855 " < http :// www. faribault. org / history2 / Alex / Alex_before. html ></ ref > He is credited with fueling most of the early settlement activity in the area beginning in 1826, when he established a fur trading post on the banks of the Cannon River.
Established by European-Americans Auguste Chouteau and Pierre Chouteau, Jr. of St. Louis in 1847 as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River, the fort became an important economic center.
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She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.
The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.
The house was restored to the U. S. in 1818, though the fur trade would remain under British control until American pioneers following the Oregon Trail began filtering into the port town in the mid-1840s.
" The name Aleut was given to the Unangan by Russian fur traders in the mid-18th century.
He convinced the Soviet government that borzoi were a valuable asset to the hunters who supported the fur industry and henceforth, their breeding was officially regulated.
David Thompson ( April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857 ) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as " Koo-Koo-Sint " or " the Stargazer ".
When glass was rubbed with silk, du Fay said that the glass was charged with vitreous electricity, and, when amber was rubbed with fur, the amber was said to be charged with resinous electricity.
The first suggestion of fakery against Haeckel was made in late 1868 by Ludwig Rutimeyer in the Archiv fur Anthropogenie.
Many fur seal species were heavily exploited by commercial sealers, especially during the 19th century when their fur was highly valued.
However, two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, learned from the Cree that the best fur country was north and west of Lake Superior and that there was a " frozen sea " still further north.
The progression for officers, together referred to as the Commissioned Gentlemen, was to enter the company as a fur trader.
Although the HBC maintained a monopoly on the fur trade during the early mid 19th century there was competition from James Sinclair and Andrew McDermot ( Dermott ), independent traders in the Red River Colony.
Because the fur trade was a very dynamic market, the governors of the HBC needed to have some form of flexibility when dealing with prices and traders.
Dark skin probably evolved after humans lost their body fur, because the naked skin was vulnerable to the strong UV radiation as would be experienced in Africa.
Therefore, evidence of when human skin darkened has been used to date the loss of human body hair, assuming that the dark skin was needed after the fur was gone.
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