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Article: Western Canadian fur trade sites and the iconography of public memory.
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- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Fur trade sites such as Lower Fort Garry, Fort Langley, Fort Edmonton and Fort William attract several hundred thousand visitors every year--cumulatively far more people than will ever read scholarly or even popular histories of the fur trade or sit through a university seminar on Western Canadian history. (1) In western Canada, fur trade sites are a prominent sector of the heritage industry. They help define the image of western Canada, which is presented as developing from fur trade roots through pioneer settlement to a modem, urban, multicultural society. Fur trade sites serve as physical monuments to Canada's origins in western North America. Even those sites without ...