North Bay remains today an important centre in the fur trade. The Northwest Company...yes descended from the original NWC and Hudson Bay Co......has one of their major exchange locations in the city. They distribute beads, skins and craft materials to aboriginal communities in this sector of Canada and serve the wholesale market taking in furs and other trade goods from as far north as Nunavut.
Note the rack of Narwhal tusks from Baffin Island with each tusk identified by a tag with details including the name of the inuit hunter who harvested the animal......
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