When the Hudson’s Bay Company steamship Beaver arrived in Victoria’s Inner Harbour, the Lekwungen assisted with the fort's ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) The Hudson's Bay Company and its main rival ... the guard room with our heavy coats of dressed beaver," Thompson wrote. To keep warm, he paced the ...

and upon it two Deeres skinnes and two Beaver Skinnes." This was the first quiet episode of trade between the Europeans and the Indians along the shores of a bay that would one day bear Hudson's ...

Point blankets were used by European settlers and explorers to barter for furs with Indigenous peoples in today’s Canada as ...

Shoppers have rushed to buy Hudson’s Bay point blankets after the company ... During the peak of the fur trade, one point was equal in value to one beaver pelt. The company’s blankets were ...