The fur trade played a large role in shaping early North American economies and cultures.

Linda Grover: Fur trade left lasting legacy The history of Onigamiising, this place of the small portage, has been interwoven with the history of the fur trade for more than 300 years. The fur ...

Thanks to the "mob wife" style trend and advances in manufacturing technology that make it look like the real thing, fake fur has conquered catwalks and the high street. The high-end imitation ...

Fur is prominent in the “boom boom” fashion trend, which emphasises excess and “male-coded values”. It has been described by ...

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 ...

Living history reenactors will talk about the French fur trade, Native American and French culture of the period, and maple sugar production.

Killing animals for their fur "doesn't correspond to modern luxury," Saint Laurent's parent company said in a statement. It's the latest fashion house to go fur-free following growing backlash ...

Roadkill is getting a new, fashionable life. For her Boston-based company Petite Mort Fur (or "the little death" in French), which she opened two years ago, Pamela Paquin turns roadkill into ...

And then the last gallery is about the Colonial period and French Detroit and French settlement in Michigan, and so you find yourself in the 1700s,” he explained.

Historical trekkers follow fur trade route in Minnesota, Canada Steven Orr and Tom Jessen donned period correct 18th-century clothing on Sept. 20 and regaled a Headwaters Center for Lifelong ...