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Since Joe Thomas also worked with the Delta Rhythm Boys, he knew their manager, Paul Kapp. Paul's brother, Dave, was Vice-President of A&R for Decca Records, and got the Beavers a recording contract with Decca's Coral subsidiary. (Dave Kapp would subsequently go on to form Kapp records.)
- Introduction
- The Demand For Fur: Hats, Pelts and Prices
- European Intermediaries in The Fur Trade
- The Supply of Furs: The Harvesting of Beaver and Depletion
- The Trade in European Goods
- References
A commercial fur trade in North America grew out of the early contact between Indians and European fisherman who were netting cod on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and on the Bay of Gaspé near Quebec. Indians would trade the pelts of small animals, such as mink, for knives and other iron-based products, or for textiles. Exchange at first was haph...
However much hats may be considered an accessory today, they were for centuries a mandatory part of everyday dress, for both men and women. Of course styles changed, and, in response to the vagaries of fashion and politics, hats took on various forms and shapes, from the high-crowned, broad-brimmed hat of the first two Stuarts to the conically-shap...
By the eighteenth century, the demand for furs in Europe was being met mainly by exports from North America with intermediaries playing an essential role. The American trade, which moved along the main water systems, was organized largely through chartered companies. At the far north, operating out of Hudson Bay, was the Hudson’s Bay Company, chart...
During the eighteenth century, the changing technology of felt production and the growing demand for felt hats were met by attempts to increase the supply of furs, especially the supply of beaver pelts. Any permanent increase, however, was ultimately dependent on the animal resource base. How that base changed over time must be a matter of speculat...
Indians were the primary agents in the North American commercial fur trade. It was they who hunted the animals, and transported and traded the pelts or skins to European intermediaries. The exchange was a voluntary. In return for their furs, Indians obtained both access to an iron technology to improve production and access to a wide range of new c...
Berkes, Fikret, David Feeny, Bonnie J. McCay, and James M. Acheson. “The Benefits of the Commons.” Nature340 (July 13, 1989): 91-93. Braund, Kathryn E. Holland.Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Carlos, Ann M., and Elizabeth Hoffman. “The North American Fur Trade...
The Sign of the Beaver alludes to several 18th-century events, most notably the French and Indian War (1754–1763). Fought between the French and British settlers with the support of several New England tribes, the French and Indian War is sometimes considered the American theater of the Seven Years’ War, a worldwide conflict that officially ...
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The Sign of the Beaver is a coming-of-age historical novel about survival in the Maine wilderness and relations between white settlers and American Indians. Setting: Summer to winter, 1769, in the woods near the Penobscot River in Maine.
In June 2021, rewilding charity Trees for Life brought a case against NatureScot, Scotland’s nature conservation agency, for allowing farmers to kill wild beavers. It argues that NatureScot is breaking the law by granting beaver control licences too liberally.
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Sep 29, 2022 · The best guess is sometime in the 16th century, with the species having all but disappeared from Europe by the 18th. However, the native beaver is now well and truly back – and with a vengeance.
