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Article: Loyalists and the fur trade: the impact of the American revolution on western Canadian history.
- Article from:
- The Loyalist Gazette
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
- Author:
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As a child, I remember being very intrigued by the idea that, if you had any English ancestors (and I did) you were almost certainly related to William the Conqueror. This was not because William the Conqueror was a particularly prolific parent, but was based on the statistical miracle of family history. As you go back generation by generation the number of people to whom you are related increases exponentially--two parents and a handful of brothers and sisters become four grandparents and many uncles and aunts and cousins. Within a very few generations most of us are actually related to hundreds or even thousands of people. In this general family way the Loyalists made a ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Fur Trade
The Oxford Companion to United States History;
700+ words
...Fur Trade. Animal pelts have probably been exchanged ... habitation, but large‐scale fur trade began only after the arrival of Europeans ... x2010;bearers dominated the American fur trade until the 1830s when declining beaver ...
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