Canada: Beaver Wars (TRIH ep 285)
1630 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook use the Canadian beaver as a lens on Canadian history, beginning with prehistoric Castoroides (the giant beaver) and Indigenous uses of beaver resources. They trace European contact — Jacques Cartier and early traders — through the rise of the fur trade, the Beaver Wars, and English institutional control via the Hudson's Bay Company and its 1670 charter for Rupert's Land. David Thompson's mapping and the centrality of beaver pelts (especially for felt hats) d...
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Around 1630
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)