LINKS TO OTHER SITES OF INTEREST TO NORTH AMERICAN FUR TRADE PERIOD RE-ENACTORS

Last updated April 27, 2007

Fur Trade Sites and Organizations

Folle Avoine Historical Park
Burnett County, Wisconsin
The Northwest Journal
Fur Trade Articles
White Oak Fur Post,White Oak Society
Deer River, Minnesota
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
(Mostly western, but good links)
Northwest Company Post || Friends of
(Pine City, MN)
Canadian Virtual Museum
Check especially the history and New France area
North American Voyageur Council Inc.
(NAVC events. New site, fall 04)
Grand Portage National Monument
(MN. Park Service page, little historic info.)
Fort William, Wyoming
(Park Service page, some historic info.)
Old Fort William
Ontario, Canada
(Slow to download)
Historic Fort Snelling
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minnesota Explorers
Z.M.Pike & S.H.Long
(Currently not working)
The Hudson's Bay Company Archives
(Historical Archives of HBC)
Sibley Historic Site
(Mendota, Minnesota)
Prairie du Chien
(Chamber of Commerce info only)
Madeline Island Historic Site
(Northern, Wisconsin)
Fort Gibraltar, Winnipeg
(Brief history)
Minnesota Living History Society
(1858-1865 period)
Upper Mississippi Brigade
(War of 1812 reenactment group)
On The Trail Magazine
(Subscription information)
Le Centre de Patrimoine, Winnipeg
(Voyageur info in French, including contracts)
Canadiana
(Canadian historical documents online)
U Idaho Primary Source Repository
(Many links to primary documentation sources)
Fort Union Historical Site
(Amer. Fur Co. site, North Dakota )
Fort Benton, Montana
(1846 Amer. Fur Co. post)
Museum of the Fur Trade
(Limited online info.; Listing of Fur Trade Quarterly articles)
Fire from Steel
( Good info. on fire steels but very slow to download)

Sutlers

Northwest Traders
(blankets, capotes)
Syke's Sutlery
(Various, esp. 1400-1700)
Jas. Townsend & Son
(various)
Moscow Hide and Fur
(leather, hides, furs)
The Agret Shop
(General Fur Trade supplies, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada)
(Alternative link)
Great Northern Trade Co.
(various)
Smoke and Fire
(various)
Hamilton Dry Goods
(fabric)
Fox River Traders
(various)
Tentsmiths
(many tents)
Bradley Co. of the Fox
(various)
Olde World Fine Clays
(pipes)
Buckskin Leather Co.
(leather and hides)
Finger Woven Sashes
DM Trading
(Danny Morse Trade Silver Reproductions)
Wooded Hamlet Designs
(historic ribbon and lacing)
Wm. Booth, Draper
(Racine, Wisconsin)

Other

Memorial to Ray Allard
 
Historical Plate Puzzle
(Online game reconstructing broken plate)

For specific trade items, I suggest you use a search engine to do an online search. Placing the complete phrase in quotes, e.g. "trade shirt" will usually return items relating to trade shirts, rather than trade (e.g. stock market results) and shirts (e.g. where to buy used t-shirts).


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