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  1. 1
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5347
    Year:
    1887
    ... fur-bearing animals was also productive, and good prices were obtained for their furs. They were enabled to pay their debts and to obtain further advances 
  2. 2
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5931
    Year:
    1888
    ... fur extensively, engage in capture of fish, hire as hands on the steamboat running on Lake Winnipeg. They likewise are employed as interpreters by 
  3. 3
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    6720
    Year:
    1889
    ... fur catch this year have been exceptionally large, owing to an advance in the price of fur skins. The Indians of this district are, as a rule, industrious 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    4241
    Year:
    1885
    ... fur within the year. With commendable enterprise they have undertaken an extensive system of drainage of the reserve, but finding, after commencing, a large 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    6650
    Year:
    1889
    ... fur, a number of them found it hard to get cash to buy clothing, tea, tobacco, & c. Their hunting and trapping were also good; fur, moose and cariboo being 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    6641
    Year:
    1889
    ... fur-bearing animals was more productive than that of last year and the prices obtained for the furs were higher. Mingan. I found all the Indians awaiting me 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    4676
    Year:
    1886
    ... fur-bearing animals has been very productive this year all along the coast. Martens were found in abundance, and, with the exception of one, all the hunters 
  8. 8
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    4073
    Year:
    1885
    ... fur-bearing animals during the winter. With the Indians of the Godbout seal and porpoise hunting forms an important factor in their means of subsistence 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    6779
    Year:
    1889
    ... fur-bearing animals are gradually becoming exterminated and unless the fisheries, upon which they mainly depend now for support, are rigidly protected, not 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5927
    Year:
    1888
    ... fur-bearing animals and rely on game and fish for their supply of food. There are two schools on the reserve, both of which are well attended, and the 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5928
    Year:
    1888
    ... fur, and were therefore able to subsist through the cold weather. Their fields last season gave promise, when the Agent visited the reserve, of yielding 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    4081
    Year:
    1885
    ... fur-bearing animals have become scarce, they begin to realize the fact that they mast look. mainly to the soil for their future subsistence. The Indians 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    3662
    Year:
    1884
    ... fur-bearing animals, the fire, as you know, having passed over their hunting grounds. No one, however, suffered from hunger during the winter. They 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    6681
    Year:
    1889
    ... fur, on which they depended a great deal in former years for a living. The latter band of Indians have been very destitute and very near starvation, they 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    3109
    Year:
    1883
    ... fur-bearing animals, the skins of which they sell to the Hudson Bay Company or to other traders. The principal points on the coast to which these Indians 
  16. 16
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5920
    Year:
    1888
    ... fur-bearing animals and to dispose of the skins in exchange for the necessaries of life to the Hudson Bay Company and to other traders. The acquisition 
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    4084
    Year:
    1885
    ... fur-bearing animals, and on fish and game. They, however, farm to some extent; those at Birch River, where the land is very fertile, doing more in that line 
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    6912
    Year:
    1889
    ... Fur-bearing animals were scarce, especially north of Beren's River, while at Grand Rapids (BR), Pek-ange-kum, Blood Vein, JackHead, Fisher River, Look 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    4616
    Year:
    1886
    ... fur-bearing animals and fishing. Their total population is 820, being 148 less than it was in 1885. There were a number of withdrawals of half-breeds from 
  20. 20
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    3593
    Year:
    1884
    ... fur-bearing animals. In this pursuit they engage extensively and with considerable success, as the part of the country in which they hunt is not as yet much 
  21. 21
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5272
    Year:
    1887
    ... fur-bearing animals and game in the proper seasons. On the whole they are law-abiding, and with the exception of the band at Soda Creek, intoxication is of 
  22. 22
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    4620
    Year:
    1886
    ... fur-bearing animals and subsist for the most part on fish and game. They also sell quantities of fish, and derive a revenue from the same. The agent reports 
  23. 23
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    6007
    Year:
    1888
    ... fur. Marten and mink, however, have been plentiful, but the price at which the fur of those animals is sold is very low. Experienced Indian hunters are 
  24. 24
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5905
    Year:
    1888
    ... fur-bearing animals in the winter. Their cattle are well cared for, and after feeding them they generally have a surplus of hay to sell. The Indians of Long 
  25. 25
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    5273
    Year:
    1887
    ... fur-bearing animals; they also catch quantities of salmon. Agriculture is likewise followed by them to some extent, but with variable success. The 
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