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Under EU regulations it's illegal to trade in cat, dog, or seal fur but the fur of other animals such as coyotes, foxes, raccoon dogs, and minks, can still be sold.

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The fur trade was one of the earliest and most important industries in North America. The Indians traded furs for such goods as tools and weapons. Beaver fur which was used in Europe to make felt hats became the most valuable of these furs.

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Each year around one hundred million animals are bred and killed on intensive fur farms specifically to supply the fashion industry with not only traditional fur coats but increasingly real fur trim for hooded jackets and real fur pompoms used on hats, gloves, shoes and a range of other clothing and accessories.

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1670. Hudson's Bay Company chartered as the first company to trade in fur.

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1608. Samuel de Champlain establishes North America's first fur trading.

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1534. Jacques Cartier trades for furs with Labrador's First Nations peoples.

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1497. John Cabot discovers Canada's east coast.

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the Hudson's Bay Company which in the twentieth century had become a large Canadian retailer ended the fur component of its operation.
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The fur trade was both very good and very bad for American Indians who participated in the trade. The fur trade gave Indians steady and reliable access to manufactured goods but the trade also forced them into dependency on European Americans and created an epidemic of alcoholism.
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The demand for beaver increased rapidly in the early 1600's, when fashionable European men began to wear felt hats made from beaver fur. Such furs as fox, marten, mink, and otter also were traded.
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Beaver pelts were the most commonly sold 

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Beaver pelts were the most commonly sold 

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Beaver fur was the most valuable fur out of at of all of the other furs.

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Beaver fur was the most valuable fur out of at of all of the other furs.

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The Indians traded furs for goods like weapons and tools.

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The Indians traded furs for goods like weapons and tools.

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The French gave European goods to Indigenous people in exchange for beaver pelts.

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The French gave European goods to Indigenous people in exchange for beaver pelts.

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The fur trade started because of a fashion craze in Europe during the 17th century.

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The fur trade started because of a fashion craze in Europe during the 17th century.

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Before the European colonization of the Americas, Russia was a major supplier of fur pelts to Western Europe and parts of Asia. 

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Before the European colonization of the Americas, Russia was a major supplier of fur pelts to Western Europe and parts of Asia. 

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The maritime fur trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea of otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the  Pacific Northwest Coast and Natives of Alaska.

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The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern period furs of boreal polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most valued.

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Captain Chauvin made the first organized attempt to control the fur trade in New France.

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The Hudson's bay is still a thriving business  

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The Hudson's bay is still a thriving business  

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The most important fur trading companies were the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company (NWC).

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The most important fur trading companies were the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company (NWC).

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Britain became the master of the fur trade in North America after it took control of New France in the 1760s

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Britain became the master of the fur trade in North America after it took control of New France in the 1760s

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The fur trade began in the 1500's as an exchange between Indians and Europeans.

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The fur trade began in the 1500's as an exchange between Indians and Europeans.