Profit and Ambition: the Canadian Fur Trade, 1779?821

Re-live the heroic days of the Canadian fur trade, a period of a little more than forty years when a group of Montral traders pushed the limits of European exploration and commerce west from Lake Winnipeg to the Pacific Ocean and north to the Arctic. The North West Company was established to control competition among a number of independent Montral fur-trading companies. It brought together mainly Scottish businessmen and partners, French-Canadian voyageurs and their ?ountry wives? Mtis bison-hunters, and Aboriginal trappers and their families in a commercial enterprise which forever changed Canada? position in North America. Discover Canada? ?ild West?through period maps, art, papers and the many beautiful objects which document this adventurous period in our history.