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From 1600 to 1867
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The growth and success of the fur trade depended on the men and women of the First Nations and Métis Nation, while the competition between the HBC and the Northwest Company would forge a new era.

	Articles/Diaries/Ephemera/Journals -37- Frances Simpson: Fort William -40- Frances Simpson: Chief Peguis -41- Frances Simpson: Fort Garry Churches -52- James Isham: Dogs and Martens -59- Nicholas Garry: Hostilities, Swiss Colonists & Voyageurs -60- Daniel Harmon: Swan River -61- Daniel Harmon: Country Wives -79- James Knight: Looking for New Trade -80- James Knight: -97- John Tanner: Trapper for NWC & HBC -98- John Tanner: Hostilities with Settlers -99- John Tanner: De Meurons to Red River -64- John Pritchard: Battle at Seven Oaks -69- HBC London Committee: Employee Theft -70- Thomas Pinfold: HBC vs the French B2 - The Importance of Caribou -56- Alexander Ross: Battle at Seven Oaks -2- Letitia Hargrave: The Washing Woman -17- RM Ballantyne: York Factory Trading Room -53- La Verendrye (son): Fort Maurepas -116- Peter Garrioch: Life at the Red River Settlement -120- Peter Fidler: Unpaid Accounts & Gunplay -125- Peter Fidler: Standard of Trade First White Woman in Edmonton B13 - A Winter Inspection Trip		Artifacts (M23) Plains-type Blackfoot Arrow (PC1) Trading Post - Interior

	Artwork/Illustrations --12-- Seven Oaks, 1816		Audio/Video (L5) Swampy Cree - Fish Trapping and Caribou Hunting (L1) Tale of an HBC Captain (Part 1): Kahkechewish - Black as Coal (L2) Tale of an HBC Captain (Part 2): Pe-nas Ki-yask [Bernard Gull] (L3) Tale of an HBC Mailman (Part 3): Nobody Knows His Name

	Maps 244. Posts of the Canadian Fur Trade 245. Portaging from Hudson's Bay to Lake Winnipeg