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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:
    34479
    Year:
    1960
    ... Fur prices have improved, this season showing increases in beaver, lynx and marten. Other fur has remained stable except for muskrat, which is lower than 
  3. 3
    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 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    35397
    Year:
    1966
    ... fur marketing 8767 60000 Coppermine Carvings, handicrafts 3000 20000 Resolute Bay Retail store, fur marketing, carvings, handicrafts 12988 55000 Grise Fiord 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    33358
    Year:
    1943
    ... fur was obtained. Good pelts sold at a high price and in the Portage la Prairie Agency the Indians received from $2 to $2.50 for a skunk skin. The catch at 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    31080
    Year:
    1926
    ... fur bearers, with the possible exception of foxes, have diminished to such an extent as to make trapping a very precarious occupation. Trappers are going 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    33605
    Year:
    1944
    ... Fur Preserve which was established in 1941, was continued. Re-stocking took place by the distribution of 30 live beaver over the area and the annual count 
  8. 8
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    33614
    Year:
    1944
    ... FUR CONSERVATION The administration, organization, and development of lands secured under lease from the various provinces for fur production purposes on 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    33981
    Year:
    1954
    ... fur farming. Many of the Indian veterans settled under the Act have increased their earning capacity by purchasing new farm machinery and have improved 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    33652
    Year:
    1945
    ... fur husbandry, fur production, and protection. Seven beaver and fur preserves-five in Quebec and two in Ontario-are presently managed by the administration 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    33941
    Year:
    1953
    ... fur had a difficult year owing to the lack of fur-bearers in some areas and to the continual low market price for all fur pelts with the exception of beaver 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    34446
    Year:
    1960
    ... fur resources for the benefit of Indians was continued in co-operation with the various provincial and territorial administrations; under formal agreements 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    34503
    Year:
    1961
    ... Fur Council which participated in fur shows in Paris and Frankfurt. In addition, assistance was afforded the Fur Trade Association of Canada in staging a 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    35965
    Year:
    1969
    ... fur season, market demand for most wild fur species continued to remain firm, with a significant advance in prices for beaver, fox, lynx, and muskrat 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    34533
    Year:
    1961
    ... fur was sold, while in the Aklavik Agency the figure was $212000. The total fur crop was therefore valued at about $350565. 80 Per Cent Go Trapping It is 
  16. 16
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    34655
    Year:
    1962
    ... fur rehabilitation and management, commercial and domestic fishing, wild rice and other wild crops, and tourist guiding. In liaison with the placement 
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    33930
    Year:
    1953
    ... fur sales than during the previous year. Marketing receipts in the earlier part of the year remained below the average of recent years, but a firmer market 
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    34102
    Year:
    1957
    ... fur-bearers were in approximately normal supply with slight declines in ermine and squirrels, and small increases in marten, fisher and lynx. Although fur 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    34216
    Year:
    1958
    ... fur bearers, excepting mink, was about average. Mink appeared to be approaching a cyclic peak in almost all areas, particularly in the Patricia district of 
  20. 20
    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 
  21. 21
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    515
    Year:
    1875
    ... fur-bearing animals - large and small - are wastefully and even wantonly destroyed at unseasonable periods of the year. The mountain ranges which supply 
  22. 22
    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 
  23. 23
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    34542
    Year:
    1961
    ... fur are mostly unchanged in production and value over the past season. The North Bay Fur Auction held three sales during the year, at which Indian-produced fur 
  24. 24
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    36321
    Year:
    1970
    ... fur harvesting and marketing constitutes the largest single activity under the program. Market demand during the past fur season has remained firm, with 
  25. 25
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    35364
    Year:
    1966
    ... fur marketing was provided to Indian trappers to permit them to share efficiently in the fur resource harvest. Fur prices are much improved, particularly 
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