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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:
    27374
    Year:
    1915
    ... fur-bearing animals are trapped. The pelts are dressed and sold to the numerous fur buyers. With the proceeds they buy themselves clothing and provisions 
  3. 3
    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 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    21884
    Year:
    1910
    ... fur which are migratory in their habits, deserting districts for some time and then returning in force. On the whole, however, the game and fur are 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27366
    Year:
    1915
    ... fur in a good spirit, and look forward with eagerness to the time when fur shall go up higher than ever before. They are giving more attention during the 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27365
    Year:
    1915
    ... fur prevailing before the outbreak of the present European war, the Indians were able to make enough from their fur hunts to supply themselves in clothing 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    21943
    Year:
    1910
    ... fur and game hunting. The catch of fur for the winter of 1909 was very poor. As the Indians are still in the interior, I cannot give any information as to the 
  8. 8
    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 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27363
    Year:
    1915
    ... fur markets the result of the conditions caused by the war in Europe, the Indians have not realized very good prices for their fur catch. However, they were 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    28024
    Year:
    1916
    ... Fur hunting has been quite successful, the fur-bearing animals have been quite plentiful, the prices that have, obtained for their fur catch have ruled much 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    28074
    Year:
    1916
    ... fur trade, the Indians during the past year have given less of their time than usual to the trapping or killing of the fur-bearing animals. Owing to the 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    22954
    Year:
    1911
    ... fur correspondingly low. As a result the Indians can afford few supplies, and must spend most of their time following the meat animals. This makes them poor fur 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    28017
    Year:
    1916
    ... fur this year have been better than last, and that has helped them out to some extent, in fact all of their living is made by hunting and fishing. A few of 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    22078
    Year:
    1910
    ... fur-bearing animals are more numerous this year - as they have increased. The spring muskrat hunt was exceedingly good, and prices were high, about three 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26665
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur-bearing animals during winter, and in summer some families fish for cod and hunt seals. Buildings. - Most of the Indians occupy very comfortable houses 
  16. 16
    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 
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    22924
    Year:
    1911
    ... fur hunt, in the prosecution of which they cover a vast territory. They have their log dwellings on the shores of the numerous lakes, where fish of 
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    25561
    Year:
    1913
    ... fur has been high and the catch during the past year has been good. Nearly all are improving their houses both inside and out, and getting some very good 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26655
    Year:
    1914
    ... Fur-bearing animals are plentiful and the prices paid for fur are very remunerative. One instance came to our notice where an Indian of Lac Seul received 
  20. 20
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26692
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur trade throughout the agency has been good this winter, fox being especially plentiful, and prices high. The catch of silver and black foxes has been 
  21. 21
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27426
    Year:
    1915
    ... fur traders dropped the prices paid for furs. This was rather serious for the Indians, as they depend very largely upon their hunting and trapping for a 
  22. 22
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27411
    Year:
    1915
    ... fur prices so low just now, their lot is not an enviable one. Owing to migration and a high death-rate they are gradually decreasing in numbers. NAANEES 
  23. 23
    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 
  24. 24
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26039
    Year:
    1913
    ... fur-bearing animals and moose. Their stay at the school has improved them, as they are cleaner and more intelligent than the others; they also speak English 
  25. 25
    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 
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