Many women who came to see the new collections ... But the current revival is a story of the fur trade responding to its critics and often outmaneuvering them, combined with increased demand ...

The Salteaux-Slovene/Anishinaabe playwright and theatre artist from Ontario’s Couchiching First Nation, won the 2015 Tom Hendry award for best new comedy for her play The Dance-off of Conscious ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Turns out, Vancouver can’t get enough of Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade.

The coureurs de bois loved their freedom and independence and profits from the fur trade, ignoring orders to ... they had sacrificed and carried off their women and their children to send them ...

Playwright Frances Koncan shifts the focus in this powerfully funny satire from the male gaze on history to the power of women and their ... world of the Canadian fur trade. Playwright: Frances ...