:* 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 the 17th century, the French had a monopoly on the Canadian fur trade.

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 French continued their fur trade on the river under Spanish license.

Spending four years raising money, Flaherty was eventually funded by French fur company Revillon Frères and returned to the North and shot from August 1920 to August 1921.

Nez Percé is an exonym given by French Canadian fur traders who visited the area regularly in the late 18th century, meaning literally ' pierced nose '.

French fur traders operated in the area, and France built forts along the Allegheny River.

In 1920, Flaherty secured funds from Revillon Frères, a French fur trade company to shoot what was to become Nanook of the North.

* July 7 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer ( b. c. 1657 )

French fur traders and trappers traveled throughout the St. Lawrence and Mississippi watersheds, did business with local tribes, and often married Indian women.

Michif ( also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree ) is the language of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations women ( mainly Cree, Nakota and Ojibwe ) and fur trade workers of European ancestry ( mainly French Canadians and Scottish Canadians ).

The majority of these fur traders were Scottish and French and were Catholic.

Later the movement of the fur trade brought about more unions between French and Cree.

It is possible that the city was named after early settler Mary Lloyd, but now the name is thought to be derived from French fur trappers ' naming of Marys Peak after the Virgin Mary.

Although French fur traders ranged widely through the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, as far as the Rocky Mountains, they did not usually settle down.

According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Nehiyaw women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and northern Dene women ( Anglo-Métis ).

In the French colonial regions, the focus of economy was the fur trade with the natives.

In the north, the Hudson's Bay Company actively traded for fur with the indigenous peoples, and had competed with French, Aboriginal, and Metis fur traders.

The first Europeans to pass through the area were French missionaries and fur traders.

The French were trying to gain advantage in the struggle for the North American fur trade against the English, who had recently established the Hudson's Bay Company.

Fort Pierre itself was named after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., an American fur trader of French origin.

In the early 19th century, European settlement started at a greater pace, after exploration during previous decades by French trappers and British and American fur traders.

In 1720 some Chickasaws massacred the French traders among them, and did not make peace for four years.

Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.

British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.

Bienville realized that if the French were to hold the southeastern tribes against the enticements of British goods, French traders must be able to offer a supply as abundant as the Carolinians and at reasonable prices.

This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.

So large numbers of Dutch traders / pirates joined their English and French brethren on the Spanish main.

As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using muskets and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave merchants.

The coast subsequently became a center of the slave trade with Dutch, English, and French traders arriving in the 16th century.

Dutch, English, and French traders came in the 16th century.

Genoese came during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially from the poorer parts of Liguria, some of them annually following fishing shoals, as repairmen for the British navy, or as successful traders and merchants ; many others came during the Napoleonic period to avoid obligatory conscription to the French Army.

The early coastal factory ( trading post ) model contrasted with the system of the French, who established an extensive system of inland posts and sent traders to live among the tribes of the region.

So large numbers of Dutch traders / pirates joined their English and French brethren trading on the remote coasts of Hispaniola.

After the early explorations, the U. S. government sought to establish control of the region, since trade along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers was still dominated by British and French traders from Canada and allied Indians, especially the Sauk and Fox.

Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.

In 1669 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, led an expedition of French traders who became the first Europeans to see the river.

The river was used by French traders, and at various times, the river was claimed by both Spain and France.

British and French traders invested heavily in cotton plantations and the Egyptian government of Viceroy Isma ' il took out substantial loans from European bankers and stock exchanges.

After the American Civil War ended in 1865, British and French traders abandoned Egyptian cotton and returned to cheap American exports, sending Egypt into a deficit spiral that led to the country declaring bankruptcy in 1876, a key factor behind Egypt's occupation by the British Empire in 1882.

On June 21, the French war party attacked the trading centre at Pickawillany, capturing three traders and killing 14 people of the Miami nation, including Old Briton.