Are Researchers Just Looking for More Algonquin Wolves? If So, Why?

Are Researchers Just Looking for More Algonquin Wolves? If So, Why?

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In the Algoma Highlands of Northern Ontario, a group of retired local researchers are trying to trap, tag and collect…
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Furmark Ambassadors Report on Certification Program’s Reception

Furmark Ambassadors Report on Certification Program’s Reception

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The International Fur Federation (IFF) has appointed a range of fur industry “Ambassadors” as well as retained the services of…
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Canada Goose Retreats from Fur. We Should All Worry, Not Just Trappers

Canada Goose Retreats from Fur. We Should All Worry, Not Just Trappers

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The recent news that Canada Goose would stop trimming the hoods of its performance parkas with coyote fur by the…
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Making Fur Clothing Available in Different Ways

Making Fur Clothing Available in Different Ways

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I’ve loved fur clothing since I was a little girl, as well as animals. I was very lucky because my parents…
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A View from the Ivory Tower

A View from the Ivory Tower

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Pierre-Yves Daoust is a professor emeritus and adjunct professor of pathology and microbiology at the University of Prince Edward Island,…
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Gene Walters – Child of the Wilderness

Gene Walters – Child of the Wilderness

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Gene Walters was born in South Dakota in 1927, but his family moved to the untamed forests of northern Alberta…
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Take a Kid Trapping – They Say the Darnedest Things!

Take a Kid Trapping – They Say the Darnedest Things!

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“Take a kid trapping” was first published in the March/April 2021 issue of Canadian Trapper magazine, telling your stories for…
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After Years of Crises It’s Clear: Fur Auctions Are the Only Way to Ensure Fair Prices

After Years of Crises It’s Clear: Fur Auctions Are the Only Way to Ensure Fair Prices

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I have been employed in this business from the fur auction end since the early 1980s and as a trapper…
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Indigenous Fur Harvesters Speak Out Against Anti-Fur Campaigners

Indigenous Fur Harvesters Speak Out Against Anti-Fur Campaigners

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The following statement from the four signatories below was released to the media on Jan. 24, 2021. “Harvesting and trading…
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British Columbia Fur Design School to Stress First Nations Roots

British Columbia Fur Design School to Stress First Nations Roots

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A fresh opportunity is coming soon for future designers to receive a holistic education on working with fur, against a…
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Love and Trapping in the Yukon

Love and Trapping in the Yukon

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Let me tell you first that a life of trapping in the Yukon was never something I’d intended. In fact,…
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Larry Goes North: Memories of a Young Kabloona

Larry Goes North: Memories of a Young Kabloona

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I went North with the Hudson’s Bay Company in April of 1969, a young guy of 19 with a lot…
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