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“There has been much literature devoted to fur-trade canoe routes and voyageur life, but analyzing them through their soundscapes is very original. Daniel Laxer advances the intriguing idea that music and performance can be assessed as another form of exchange and thereby paints a different and more comprehensive picture of fur-trade labour and social relations. Listening to the Fur Trade will really shake up what we know about the fur trade.” George Colpitts, University of Calgary and author of North America’s Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580–1850

There has been much literature devoted to fur-trade canoe routes and voyageur life, but analyzing them through their soundscapes is very original. Daniel Laxer advances the intriguing idea that music and performance can be assessed as another form of exchange and thereby paints a different and more comprehensive picture of fur-trade labour and social relations. Listening to the Fur Trade will really shake up what we know about the fur trade. George Colpitts, University of Calgary and author of North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580-1850

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Daniel Robert Laxer is an historical researcher in the Negotiations and Reconciliation Division in Ontario’s Ministry of Indigenous Affairs.

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