While this famous painting by Frances Anne Hopkins portrays voyageurs, the regular canoe brigades were often manned by natives, operating the same way.
Fur brigades were convoys of canoes and boats used to transport supplies, trading goods and furs in the North American fur trade industry. Much of it consisted of native fur trappers, most of whom were Métis, and fur traders who traveled between their home trading posts and a larger Hudson's Bay Company or Northwest Company post in order to supply the inland post with goods and supply the coastal post with furs. [citation needed]
Travel was usually done on the rivers by canoe or, in certain prairie situations, by horse. For example, they might travel to Hudson Bay or James Bay from their inland home territories. This pattern was most prevalent during the early 19th century. [citation needed] Canoes were eventually replaced by York boats because they were more economically and physically efficient.[1]
^Johnson, D., & Lower Fort Garry Volunteer Association. (n.d.). Inland armada : The York boats of the Hudson's Bay Company. Selkirk, MB: Lower Fort Garry Volunteer Association.
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