Description: Hudson's Bay Company blacksmith shop in Moose Factory, ON. Moose Factory was at one time in the fur trade the most important post on James Bay. Tags Winter, Blacksmith, Old Style Houses, ...

... my grandfather and other Mushkegowuk/Scottish Cree worked as post hunters, mail deliverers, clerks, blacksmiths, coopers, carpenters, or as general laborers for the HBC fur traders. Indeed, my grandfather ...