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This digital document is an article from Capper's, published by Ogden Publications, Inc. on January 6, 2004. The length of the article is 533 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: French-Canadian fur traders fed on spare fare.
Author: D.A. Guiliani
Publication: Capper's (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 6, 2004
Publisher: Ogden Publications, Inc.
Volume: 126 Issue: 1 Page: 12(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Enter a grocery store today, and thousands of food choices sit in front of you. But 300 years ago, fur traders in the northern Great Lakes region had simpler fare and that's when supplies from the trading center in Montreal actually came through. Without those supplies, diets we dreadful at best. Nonetheless these hardy men ate, survived and prospered.
Traders--called voyageurs because they were French Canadians--were sent from the main post at Montreal in full-cargo, long and wide canoes. Manufactured goods such as blankets, kettles, fishhooks, beads and knives were traded to American Indians for beaver pelts. The pelts were popular for hats and coats in Europe.
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