. Annual report . C/3 ID o HISTORY OF THE ADIRONDACK BEAVER. 7>91 often established almost within earshot of populous Indian villages andpermanent encampments. It is known that the Indians had a supersti-tious regard for the beaver,— even associating him with the creation ofthe world,— which may have had some influence on his practical immunityfrom their pursuit. First Far-Trading Posts In 1603 the first fur-trading post in Canada was established at Tadousac,on the Saguenay; the second at Stadacona (Quebec) the following Rivers was founded soon after; but it was not until the est
. Annual report . C/3 ID o HISTORY OF THE ADIRONDACK BEAVER. 7>91 often established almost within earshot of populous Indian villages andpermanent encampments. It is known that the Indians had a supersti-tious regard for the beaver,— even associating him with the creation ofthe world,— which may have had some influence on his practical immunityfrom their pursuit. First Far-Trading Posts In 1603 the first fur-trading post in Canada was established at Tadousac,on the Saguenay; the second at Stadacona (Quebec) the following Rivers was founded soon after; but it was not until the establishmentof Ville Marie (Montreal) in 1611 that the fur trade began to assume con-spicuous proportions in the New World. At the south, the first permanentsettlement by the Dutch was at Fort Nassau, near Albany (1614), andNew Amsterdam (1626). The southern part of the Adirondacks was then nominally the huntinggrounds of the Five Nations, of whom the Mohawks were the most claimed the land northward
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