2 Th is chapter explores how men who worked for Montreal-based companies, and travelled thousands of kilometres across northern North America transporting trade goods, fashioned masculine ideals that helped them to cope with the environments through which they travelled. Lawrence Valley, who were indentured to companies in Montreal.
Men from a variety of places and ethnic groups came to work in the trade, including large numbers of Orcadians from northern Scotland, who laboured in the trade based out of Hudson Bay, and French Canadians from the St. 1 Th ousands of men from a variety of backgrounds worked in this industry, from those in the high-status managerial positions, who fi nanced trade goods and decided where to build trade posts, to those in the low-status labouring positions, who built the forts and carried the trade goods vast distances all over northern North America as they travelled back and forth between the posts and central depots both in Montreal and on the coast of Hudson Bay. Trapping furbearing animals and trading their pelts in North America to fashion felted hats and to trim clothing in Europe dominated the early modern mercantile economy of the land that was eventually colonized as Canada starting in the early seventeenth century and continuing to the end of the nineteenth century-aft er which the industry shift ed northward to smaller-scale commercial enterprises focused on luxury clothing.
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