New Lands for Trade In 1659, two French fur-traders - Pierre Esprit Radisson and his brother-in-law Mdard Chouart des Groseilliers - embarked on a journey into the Canadian interior that would ...

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vrendrye In the early 1700's, the North American fur trade was largely concentrated around Hudson Bay where the British had established a large network of ...