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Fur Bearing Animals Endangered Species Conservation Furs
1,672 wordsThe fur Industry is an area of commerce that encompasses farming or trapping certain fur bearing animals, processing their skins for sale to manufacturers of fur garments and marketing finished garments to retail outlets. The term fur refers to any animal skin or part that has hair, fleece, or fur fibers attached, either in a raw or processed state. Skins of fur bearing animals are also called peltries or pelts. From earliest times, fur has been a prized commodity. Exploration in the New World m...
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Hudson Bay Company Fur Trade
2,864 wordsThe Canadian fur trade, which grew out of the fishing industry, began as a small business, but would expand and become not only the exploiter of a primary Canadian resource, but the industry around which the country of Canada itself developed. The fur trade started shortly after the discovery of the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland. The fishermen who fished there were the first people who traded furs with the Indians; this trade was a secondary means of profit for the fishermen. Later t...
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