The fur trade was the major commercial activity which sustained the colonies. This site has numerous links to other related articles.
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This is the companion website to the PBS production of the same name. You'll find a transcript of the programme, maps of explorers' routes, a forum of questions to, and answers by, an expert historian, a quiz, biographical pages of eight explorers and Charles II and Louis Riel, and a 300 year timeline of the Company's history. Les Coureurs des Bois Learn about the life of the 18th century Coureurs des Bois of New France. These men were as much explorers and mapmakers as they were fur trappers. History of Victoria Victoria is one of the oldest settlements on the west boundary of Canada.