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  1. 1
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7801
    Year:
    1891
    ... fur. They have no school, but are striving to get one; it is their intention to build a schoolhouse next year, after which they will ask the Department to 
  2. 2
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    10118
    Year:
    1895
    ... fur, $100; other industries, $587 $687 Poor Man's, fur, 150; other industries, 579 729 Gordon's, fur, 250; other industries, $1399, 1649 Muscowequan fur 
  3. 3
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    9495
    Year:
    1894
    ... Fur and game were more plentiful than usual. I may mention that they killed about one hundred bear, one hundred beaver, eight hundred mink, seventy deer and 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7257
    Year:
    1890
    ... fur every winter is large. They have no school, and are very anxious to have one established. Pic River Band. These Indians have done well in the way of 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7824
    Year:
    1891
    ... fur-bearing animals; but having managed to kill a large number of cariboo, the did not suffer from hunger. They are generally sober in their habits. I left 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7769
    Year:
    1891
    ... fur-bearing animals and game than do those at more remote points from civilization, situated upon or inland from the coast, or in the Rainy River and Lake 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7357
    Year:
    1890
    ... fur-bearing animals; they also killed a large number of cariboo, and neither those who had remained in the woods nor those who had come to the coast 
  8. 8
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7278
    Year:
    1890
    ... Fur-bearing animals being very scarce, the Hudson's Bay Company and other traders did not give credit, as in previous years; for it is customary for traders 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    9494
    Year:
    1894
    ... fur and game. Fish are very scarce now. North-west Angle, 34. This band put in thirty bushels of potatoes and half a bushel of corn. These Indians were 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    8449
    Year:
    1892
    ... fur, wild fowl, two hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifteen cents; November, cutting wood, hay, fur, beef, fish, two hundred and thirty-five dollars 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7446
    Year:
    1890
    ... fur caught by these Indians last winter was: - Fish $3585.00 Fur 7,74900 Total $11334.00 As lumber is available, they are beginning to build better dwelling 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    9492
    Year:
    1894
    ... Fur hunting last winter was a failure, but the kill of fish and game was sufficient for all the wants of the band. Three new dwelling houses are being built 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    9362
    Year:
    1894
    ... fur, freighting, sale of beef, labour, amounts to $3410. This reserve has a large boarding school under the direction of the Presbyterian Church, and has 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    9493
    Year:
    1894
    ... fur or game, and, it is a poor place for fish. The Indians depend almost entirely on the produce of their farms and the wages they earn its freighters. At 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    10545
    Year:
    1896
    ... Fur Trade. - In many places the fur-catch was far below the average, which is caused by the settlement of the country, and the day is not far distant when 
  16. 16
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    12545
    Year:
    1899
    ... fur-hunting. The fur-bearing animals are on the decrease, owing a great deal to the presence of settlers all through the country now. Farming has not been 
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7221
    Year:
    1890
    ... fur, encamp in the vicinity of the Honourable the Hudson Bay Company's Post on Agawa River. The Batchewana Band also own a reserve of twenty-three acres 
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7825
    Year:
    1891
    ... fur-bearing animals. One of these Indians went out salmon fishing, and he was very successful. The potato crop last year was poor. The Indians had just 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    10526
    Year:
    1896
    ... fur-seals have been known to land in large numbers on rocky islets off Cape Scott. Bear, wapiti, and deer can be had in the Vancouver Island section. Many 
  20. 20
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7800
    Year:
    1891
    ... fur, and fish, they are obliged to turn their attention to agriculture and other modes of gaining a livelihood. During the last winter they got out a lot of 
  21. 21
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    9316
    Year:
    1894
    ... fur business at this post is dwindling down, and before long it is likely it will be closed and the Indians will then have to seek some other place to live 
  22. 22
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    8861
    Year:
    1893
    ... Fur and big game was scarce, so most of the hunters turned their attention to fishing. The schools on the reserve are doing good work, although riot as much 
  23. 23
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    11753
    Year:
    1898
    ... fur hunting. The fur-bearing animals are on the decrease, also the farming has not been what it should, but there is every prospect of the future being 
  24. 24
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    7222
    Year:
    1890
    ... fur-bearing animals have not appreciably diminished in number, at least to such a degree as to render it necessary that these nomads should settle down to 
  25. 25
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    8597
    Year:
    1892
    ... fur-seal and seal-otter during the year. The statistics are appended: - Value of personal property $70300 Acres under cultivation 12 New land broken in 1 
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