Posts tagged "fur-trade":

Making a Clerk’s Cap

A few years ago I came across a website by the name of the Northwest Journal while perusing the internet. This site contained numerous articles covering the Canadian fur trade which played a vital role in Canada's early history. What caught my eye the most was an article detailing the construction of a clerk's cap: a soft, billed cap given to clerks working for fur trade companies from around 1800 to the 1850s.