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The Fur Trade

Drawing of two Algonquins approaching île Saint-Ignace on a canoe to participate in Michel Gamelain’s brandy-trading business.

Algonquin hunters carrying bundles of furs, drawing, 2017, Alexandre Pétrin.

Source: Domaine seigneurial Ste-Anne

Trading with members of First Nations is frequent at the time and those meetings are an occasion to exchange fur, meat but also brandy, which at that time is judged illegal by the colonial authorities.