The Fur Trade

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In this picture a man who holds a gun and has a look.There are 2 people besides him are looking for the fur.I think they are checking for the fur that the man gives them.Maybe they have a trade between the gun and fur.All of them are looking very carefully with the fur and gun.There is a woman behind the man who holds a gun.I think maybe she is his wife.There are two furs on the table.I think the man who looks for the gun is a hunter.He killed the animal and got the fur to exchange money.

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There are six people in this picture. I see a woman who holds her child hand waiting for her husband. They give the fur to the other people to trade. Their child stands behind them. I think maybe his parents don't want him to see the fur because it's very cruel. The person who checks the fur very carefully and he is thinking something . There is another person who gets fur waiting to trade. Unfortunately ,the kid looks at the dead animal. I think this picture can show us that the fur trade makes the children not have a good memory of their childhood.

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This picture shows the people who carry the fur are walking in the forest. There are two men in the picture. Both of them carry more than one fur. They look very rigor,but they still work very hard.There are two women in the picture. I just see a woman crays fur ,she looks very unhappy and helpless. I think all of them want to trade to get money. They look very poor. This picture also shows that the fur is very heavy. Maybe they get money by trading fur. I saw the fur that in the picture looks very cruel.

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There are so much fur in that picture. This picture shows a store that sells the fur. The man who in this picture looks very rich. I think this store also is a place that people can trade. This picture reminds me of the dead animals. They were trying to live,but they couldn't. The fur that showed in the picture looks very scary. I don't why the people in that period to trade fur, but I think they must do that. Every one need money and food to live ,so maybe this is a only way that they can make money and get food. I really want to know the feeling of them when they killed the animal. I think all of them were felt very cruel and sad.

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This picture shows the early Indian Traders. Their life looks very poor and the house that they lived looks very poor,too. I see fur hanging from the roof of the house. It shows maybe the family depend on the fur to live. The woman in that picture looks is cooking something and the child helps the family to do the chores. I don't know what does the father do in that picture. I think the fur is the most valuable substance in their family. They have no smile and they looks very unhappy with the life.

What is fur trade?

Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (see FISHERIES HISTORY). Drying their fish onshore took several weeks, during which time good relations had to be maintained with the natives, who were eager to obtain metal and cloth goods from the Europeans: iron knives and axes, awls, copper kettles, blankets and trinkets. All they had to offer in exchange were furs and fresh meat. The fishermen found an eager market in Europe for the furs and made high profits. When the wide-brimmed felt hat came into fashion later in the 16th century, the demand for BEAVER PELTS increased tremendously. The best material for hat felt was the soft underfur of the beaver, the strands of which had tiny barbs that made them mat together tightly.