In the fur industry, these animals spend their entire lives inside cramped cages — frantically pacing back and forth, gnawing on the bars and mutilating themselves ... However, the fur trade betrays those ideals.
... and director of the Pacific Fur Company (PFC), had outfitted the Tonquin, a swift copper-bottomed three-masted ship, to sail to the west coast of North America and establish a trading post.
A small team of paddlers has set off this spring, travelling 1,200 kilometres by canoe and portage from Tadoussac, Que., to James Bay. They'll be reviving an ancient route carved by fur traders and Indigenous guides centuries ago ... .