From February 8 to 23, the Firehall Arts Centre is presenting Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade: a sharp, satirical ...

Before the present day known settlements were built along the Yellowstone River, fur trading posts were built to accommodate trade between the American Fur Company and the Native Americans of ...

In the fur trade, New Year’s Day, not Christmas, was the season’s more beloved holiday. Before Christmas and after New Year’s ...

John Jacob Astor's employees experienced many adventures and opportunities in the wilderness of the great Northwest before Astor had to pull out of ...

On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

Oregon was established in 1859 as the 33rd state in the United States, but the Molalla Log House is thought to be much older.

The Northwest Passage is believed to offer one of the shortest shipping routes between Europe and Asia. It’s a narrow ...

A bald eagle is recovering at the Atlantic Wildlife Institute after finding itself caught in a coyote snare — something that ...

A St. Andrews home built in 1861 that had a historic site designation from the province of Manitoba went up in flames ...

Record-breaking pilot shoots down six of Putin's missiles in a single mission With high heels and fur coats, Kaitlin Olson taps into 'High Potential' Top 10 Best US Presidents My Chinese Mom's ...

and is often sourced from farms certified by Nordic fur trading companies, such as Saga. When brands disclose their own use of fur, a general practice is to list their compliance and cooperation ...

But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates protects ... Infants are prized in the exotic pet trade. Sometimes poachers shoot the mother to take an infant, who may not survive in ...