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Le castor: the animal that built New France
For two and a half centuries, beaver pelts were the backbone of the fur trade that made Montréal.
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Beaver facts
- For about 250 years from the early 1600s, the beaver was at the heart of the fur trade, the commercial pillar of New France.
- Coureurs des bois trapped and traded prime beaver pelts, which were shipped to Europe and felted into hats.
- The Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, founded in Montréal in 1834 by Ludger Duvernay, promoted the beaver and the maple leaf as national symbols.
- In Québec French the beaver is le castor.
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