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Canada’s Fur Trade – a Timeline
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The fur trade is part of Canada’s resource-based economy and one of Canada’s oldest and most historically significant industries. Four hundred years following its start, the commercial fur trade continues to utilize a plentiful sustainable Canadian resource in a responsible manner and is an important contributor to the Canadian economy and ecology.

Time-line of Canada’s Commercial Fur Trade

1497

John Cabot discovers Canada’s east coast
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1534

Jacques Cartier trades for furs with Labrador’s First Nations peoples
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1608

Samuel de Champlain establishes North America’s first fur trading
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1670

Hudson’s Bay Company chartered as the first company to trade in fur
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1700-1870

The height of the Canadian Fur Trade
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1880s

The fashion industry introduces the fur coat
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1895

First modern-day fur farm (Prince Edward Island)
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1940s

Adoption of modern wildlife management
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1948

Canada joins the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
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1954

Canadian Association for Humane Trapping (CAHT) established
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1968

Beginning of the modern-day anti-fur movement
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1975

Canada joins CITES
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1983

Canadian Trap Research and Testing program begins
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1984

“Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farmed Mink”
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1987

Hudson’s Bay Company sells its Canadian fur auction business to NAFA
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1989

“Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Ranched Fox”
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1992

Canada joins the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
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1997

Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards (AIHTS)
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2007

Implementation of phase one of AIHTS
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Today, the success of Canada’s fur trade is as much a recognition of a centuries-old tradition of excellence as it is a modern example of the sound application of conservation principles and sustainable development.

 

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