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Explore life in a Fur Trading Camp
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Meet costumed re-enactors
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Participate in Demonstrations
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Purchase unique items at the trade lodges
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Taste authentic foods at the Camp Kitchen
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Experience crafts, trade and occupational skills of the people who lived and worked at the time
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Demonstrators and re-enactors are located throughout the camp.
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When you visit the encampment your will see fur trade clerks, voyageurs, candle maker, blacksmith, gunsmith, just to name a few.
The fur trade was based on a system of bartering between the Native Americans, Fur Traders and the Fur Trade Companies. - Northwest Fur Trade Company and Hudson Bay Company.
Fur trappers bartered pelts for material goods.
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