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KALM AND THE FUR TRADE
’White foxes from Tadoussac...’
iPROJECT Written by Viveka Hansen | Photographed by Lars Hansen
Tadoussac was one of the centres for fur trade between the French and the First Nation’s people during the 17th and 18th centuries – by which it was already an established trading post with a long history. Even if Kalm never visited Tadoussac, he does mention it on numerous occasions in his journal (1749). The location was primarily denoted in connection to the fur trade “I will now insert a list of all the different kinds of skins, which are to be got in Canada, and which are sent thence to Europe. I got it from one of the greatest merchants in Montreal.”
Every pelt is described in both English and French, so pelts from Tadoussac are registered as follows by Kalm: ”White foxes from Tadoussac, renards blancs de Tadoussac.” Today it is possible to experience and take in part of the trading post’s history through a 1960s replica which acts as a museum and is situated close to where Pierre de Chauvin’s original trading post was located, which dated from 1600.
Added: 02/08/2014
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