Load the Canoes

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Over 200 years ago, a trading post stood on the Qu'Appelle River, in what is now Saskatchewan.

In 1812 a 19-year-old clerk named Cuthbert Grant came to work there. Let's help him count!

Canoes at the post

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The North West Company post on the Qu'Appelle River was a pemmican post. Its job was to feed the canoe brigades.

Cuthbert Grant worked there in 1812. Let's get a brigade ready to go!

Bags of pemmican, about 90 lb each

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At the post there was no paper money. Value was counted in beaver pelts.

Hunters traded pelts for goods. Make each trade fair — balance the scale!

Beaver pelts: the unit of value