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  1. 1
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20277
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur up to the average supply, but the tendency to scarcity was more of game than of fur, and prices were encouraging. In British Columbia the character of 
  2. 2
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20308
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur can be disposed of at a good price in Orillia or any of the neighbouring towns. During last season Mr. C. Goffatt, a fur dealer of this town, alone 
  3. 3
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20344
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur and the prices were good. Owing to a seizure of fur during the latter part of the year, the Indians were obliged to dispose of their fur at a 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20353
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur and game hunting. Apart from Romaine, where fur hunting was a total failure, it was very fair and prudes obtained for pelts were high. Morality and 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20545
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-bearing animals during the winter season. A few of the men remain at home, making Indian curios out of wood and stone, and their women making fancy and 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20276
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur upon which many of the minor manufactures, such as of moccasins and mittens depend, and with regard to fancy articles, in which a considerable trade is 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20443
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur hunt lasts, their ambition in this direction is limited to a few bead. Buildings. - The houses are good log buildings, and the new ones put up last year 
  8. 8
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20378
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur being caught. The prices for fur were lower than last year, with the exceptions of muskrat and wolves, which were higher. A new mission-house has been 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20488
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur, but they managed to survive the winter with but little assistance from the trading posts. At all the places visited I heard complaints with regard to 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20442
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur and fish for their own use, also for sale. This year the fur hunting has been very unsatisfactory, but the fishing has been good. During the summer they 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20441
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-catch has been very poor this year; they, however, managed to catch enough fish for their wants and to sell some besides. Buildings. - The houses on 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20471
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-bearing and game animals disappeared from their accustomed haunts, and there was no call for labour, neither was there sale for timber. Under these 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20352
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-bearing animals and seals; some go to shanties; they also act as guides to sportsmen, and engage in fishing. Education. - As there is no school on this 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20571
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-bearing animals are becoming scarcer each year; many of the skins taken, however, brought good prices, which compensated to some extent for the few 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20491
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-bearing animals made the hunt on the whole a comparative failure. The depletion of many of the water's by commercial fishing restricted for some that 
  16. 16
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20473
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur was good and prices high. The sale of 625 tons of hay by individual Indians, in the towns of Ponoka and Wetaskiwin, contributes largely towards their 
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20272
    Year:
    1908
    ... to prosecute their natural resources, and that is in turn chiefly affected by the gradual disappearance of game and fur before the advance of settlement
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20559
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-bearing animals and working as farm-hands with white settlers are the principal occupations of these Indians. Buildings. - They have comfortable 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20354
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-bearing animals in this section and also to the fact that they receive better remuneration for their labour in other occupations. Quite a number act as 
  20. 20
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20459
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur animals, and accordingly this industry receives no direction. The remarkable falling off of game and furs, however, that has occurred within the last 
  21. 21
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20477
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur are getting very scarce, they are anxious to try farming. In order to give them a chance to do so, the department has supplied them with a few head of 
  22. 22
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20394
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur are scarcer, the Indians are compelled to be more industrious. Thrift, however, is not a dominant factor with them; they will not make provision for the 
  23. 23
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20376
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur. The members of Keeseekoowenin's band, No. 61, make their living, some farming, raising cattle and horses, I some hunting and fishing, and a number of 
  24. 24
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20412
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur has been scarce this year, and the fishing has fallen off very greatly, so that the circumstances of the people have not been as prosperous as could be 
  25. 25
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    20377
    Year:
    1908
    ... fur-catch, which curtailed their earnings to some extent, did not result in any extra hardships to the Indians. Owing to the late spring, the acreage had to 
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