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The paper argues that the fur trade was perhaps the defining element in the economic and social relationship between Native Canadians and the English and French settlers of early Canada. The paper asserts that its sheer prominence in the history of early Canada - fuelling not only settlement expansion and the rivalry of the two European powers in Canada, but also dramatically impacting the social order of Aboriginal societies in early Canada - requires that we pay critical attention to the complexities of this trade and its varying impacts.

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"While the economic history of the fur trade in early Canada may appear, from our 21st century perspective, to be a detail of history, a critical exploration of the role of this trade in its time would reveal a radically different perspective. From this point of view, the fur trade was perhaps the defining element in the economic and social relationship between Native Canadians and the English and French settlers of early Canada. Its sheer prominence in the history of early Canada - fuelling not only..."

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