Season 3, Show 9:

The Fur Trade

In this Venturing Forth episode we take our cameras to the community of Fort Chipewyan in Northern Alberta-where the Northwest and Hudson's Bay companies established trading posts in the early colonization years-and look at how they have evolved. Is the fur trade boom a blip on the economic radar, or a sign of something much more enduring? And how is enterprise in nearby Fort McMurray impacting the culture and livelihood of smaller communities like Fort Chipewyan?

APTN airdate: April 06, 2003