The 1830s were fraught times for hatters everywhere. Fashionable men clung to the beaver hat for centuries, but in the early 1800s that fashion was threatened by over-hunting the chubby rodents.
The fur trade brought newcomers to the Canadian North-West in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The English and then the French were here to secure beaver skins for the European hat-making ...
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