Defying the Governor of New France, Pierre Esprit Radisson and Mdard Chouart des Groseilliers set off to find new fur trade routes in 1659. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) The ...

McGillivray, McTavish, Mackenzie, Frobisher. These men were the adventurers - travelling the fur trade routes themselves from Montreal - meeting with the wintering partners and clerks who manned ...

The winter winds howled across the Upper Great Lakes, the kind that cut to the bone and warned of hard times ahead. But inside her trading post, Madeline Laframboise stood firm. A Métis businesswoman, ...