BEAVER SANCTUARY
SEVEN THOUSAND SQUARE MILES. BIG COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE. OTTAWA, Canada. At the mouth of Rupert River at the foot of the Hudson Bay in Northern Canada there stands today the greatest commercial beaver sanctuary in the world extending over seven thousand square miles. This territory is being nursed back into scientific beaver production by the Hudson’s Bay Company in an attempt to build up again the beaver population in Canada. This particular section of Canada’s northland is a most historic one. It was there that in 1668 the first post of the newly formed Hudson Bay Company was established and was the first British establishment in what is today Canada, the senior British Dominion. From this and other posts, the Honourable Company of Gentleman Adventurers, as the Hudson’s Bay Company was called, traded with the Indian population for furs. The beaver was so plentiful that its pelt was at one time adopted as legal tender in the trading posts. Owing to the popularity of its fur, the beaver population was practically exterminated and governmental action was necessary to prevent it becoming completely extinct.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 5
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184BEAVER SANCTUARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 5
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