Dear Sarah,
I find all this talk about the fur trade very interesting, so I will share some of this information with you. Back in 1776, a bunch of traders from Montreal joined together to create a company called the North West Company. The North West Company decided to compete with the Hudson's Bay Company. A while later the North West Company did very well. They had access to Lake Athabasca, which had top quality furs. This forced the Hudson's Bay Company to open up trading posts in the west. The North West Company had another advantage. They had Metis people work for them because the Metis are very successful in fur trade. Simon Fraser and David Thompson opened fur trade territories west of the Rocky Mountains. I hope that this has interested you, and made you want to find out more, like me.
Your brother,
George Davis Lanott
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