Canada is the largest producer of wild furs in the world, with some 415,000 pelts sold in the 2019-2020 season. Trapper Ray Gall packs out a beaver from one of his ...

Organizers of the Fur Harvesters Auction Annual Trappers Convention say, despite some headwinds, they are seeing a renewed ...

Artist Ken Lum is blasting a Canadian city’s decision not to display his artwork criticizing the once prominent fur trade out of fear the artwork could cause offense. Lum, an award-winning artist with ...

On September 4, a six-strong team of mostly Canadian paddlers brought their canoes ashore in Waskaganish, a Cree community on James Bay. They had completed a 1,200km journey that began three months ...

Rising fur prices caused by strong global markets are putting more trappers in the woods these days. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has sold 7,768 trapping licenses this year, the most ...

Researchers have found that a strain of tuberculosis (TB) responsible for devastating some isolated Aboriginal populations in Canada was first introduced to these communities by French Canadian fur ...

Canada is the world's largest producer of wild furs, but few manage to make a living anymore solely in the fur trade, which dates back 400 years to the first Indigenous trades of pelts to European ...