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  1. 1
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23843
    Year:
    1912
    ... FUR TRADE. Possibly next in importance to the disposition of the Indians is the fur trade, as, with the exception of the missions, the whole population is 
  2. 2
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23824
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur hunt has been good and the prices paid were also good. Moose have been killed when required. Fishing has been greatly neglected for the fur hunt, but 
  3. 3
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23825
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur, moose, fishing, trading and tripping for the fur companies in winter, and as boatmen and canoemen in summer. Part of this band live at Pine Bluff 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    24232
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur trading companies at Fort Albany and Moose Factory and other places. The others go to the woods, fur hunting and trapping in winter, returning in the 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23866
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur and game are plentiful, they make a good living; but the encroachment of settlement on their hunting grounds will soon compel them to turn their 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23833
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur animals are getting scarce in the vicinity of the reserves, but the good hunters always get more or less fur, and the prices were good. Moose and elk 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23822
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur companies. Temperance and Morality. - The band is temperate, and probably as moral as any other band in like circumstances. ISLAND LAKE BAND. Tribe 
  8. 8
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23845
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur trade commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company, also to Mr. AF Camsell, and Mr. Chas. Christie, the local officials of the company. Bishop Breynat 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23842
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur. A considerable number seemed to be suspicious of the good intentions of the government in placing the demonstration farm in what they termed their 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23772
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur-bearing animals in winter and seals during the summer. Some of the Indians at Chaloupe River fish for cod in summer. Buildings. - Most of the Indians at 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23982
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur as a winter employment. Owing to the treaty recently made between the dominion of Canada, Japan, Russia and the United States, there will be a close 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23895
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur animals are receding steadily, due to the increased settlement in the neighbourhood. Buildings. - The houses on this reserve, with few exceptions, are 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    24115
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur-bearing animals. When on these hunting and trapping expeditions the parents take the children with them, there being no boarding school in the district 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23832
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur. The morality of the Indians of this agency is not of the best, and the farm instructors and agent have a good deal of trouble in keeping whisky out of 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23804
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur trade with the Hudson's Bay Company for a living, and are fairly independent. Temperance and Morality. - They are fairly temperate, but at times liquor 
  16. 16
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23921
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur and cedar, covering the land, is valuable. A great part of these reserves is well suited for agricultural purposes, and the climate is not excessively wet
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23847
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur seems to be plentiful at Chipewyan this winter, but the cariboo hunt is a failure. This is a serious matter for these Indians, as they in a measure 
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23775
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur animals are scarce and little or no trapping is done and fishing is a thing of the past. Crops were secured in nice condition. A few horses have been 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23821
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur and game country, want is seldom known and then it is their own fault. This is the most independent band I have ever seen. They are good freighters 
  20. 20
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23910
    Year:
    1912
    ... Fur, too, is returning, and the Indians are experiencing a period of prosperity. Nearly all are well dressed. They are healthy and on the whole the richest 
  21. 21
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23911
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur animals. We left for Hay River on the 13th in a small Fort boat, and reached there after an uneventful sail of three days, across the lake. Here we paid 
  22. 22
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23712
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur-bearing animals are in many districts becoming scarcer every year. The revenue received from these industries will be seen from the following statement 
  23. 23
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23970
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur. All live in open camps during winter and summer, and during cold weather are unable to hunt for lack of sufficient clothing with which to keep warm 
  24. 24
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    24068
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur, shoot the moose and deer, and chase the train in winter occupies the time of the Indians in this district. All of these have a direct result on the 
  25. 25
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    23969
    Year:
    1912
    ... fur-bearing animals, always receiving good prices for the pelts. Buildings. - At one time, during the gold excitement in the 70's and 80's a number of these 
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