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The 18th Century Fur Trade Polluted Lake Superior’s Shore With Mercury That’s Never Gone Away The area’s elevated mercury levels aren’t healthy for fish, birds or humans.
Frontier is being billed as an action-adventure series that will chronicle the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. Momoa will play Declan Harp, a ruthless trader who, not unlike the ...
Program coordinator Andy Talley will assume the trappings and persona of 18th Century French fur trader Andre St. Pierre. Talley will demonstrate how St. […] Skip to content.
Steven Orr and Tom Jessen donned period correct 18th-century clothing on Sept. 20 and regaled a Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning audience in Park Rapids with their epic, historical trek.
The public is invited to step back in time to visit a French fur trade encampment with the Port Huron Museum Saturday. The living history re-enactment will take place behind the Port Huron Museum ...
The Island Rendezvous, an annual historical fair that re-creates the fur trade between Native Americans and French Canadian voyageurs, will be held this weekend at the Isle a la Cache Museum, 501 E… ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Travel back in time this weekend with 40,000 of your closest friends to the 18th century – and experience what organizers say will be a pre-COVID-19 Feast of the Hunters ...
A Cedar City man is devoting up to 125 hours per week to preserving the art of the 18th and 19th century fur trade. And he’s one of the most respected artists and craftsmen in the field.
Frontier (Sunday, Discovery, 9 p.m.) is a new drama about Canada in the 18th century, ... The gist is this – enormous amounts of money can be made from the fur trade and the HBC will not, ...