What Was Life Like For A 19th-Century Fur Trader?

[@Prairietrucker]

I remember watching this series on tv in Canada in the early 2000's. Quest for the Bay. There where other series too, Prairie quest, Quest for the sea and Klondike - quest for gold.

[@nikiacord2219]

Can you recommend any other series that are similar like the others you have suggested please? I have definitely going to watch the ones you said lol

[@yuliyasood2100]

I always believed in resolve, friendship, and all the other great human qualities, which you all possess and displayed. Thanks for this masterpiece.

[@gladtech4740]

If they ever recreate this "test" journey I am trying out immediately. Looks like so much fun and you don't even have to pay me.

[@cmaden78]

Don't ever say that dude😂 It's ok to do things for experience, but I wish someone had told me this when I was younger

[@normpaddle]

It's been done. It's from an old series. Just get a canoe and go, plenty paddling across Canada every summer. Just go!

[@megacatsupreme466]

Yeah hoe 💪🏽

[@gabriellarowden9442]

Agreed ! I’ve already done some of the routes and loved it !

[@markdecorte2638]

Try the gold rush trail through bc up to Alaska. What a trip!

[@yuliyasood2100]

OMG you made it, amazing hard work, thank you for making it! You lift my spirit high. I always believed in resolve, friendship, and all the other great human qualities, which you all possess and displayed. Thanks for this masterpiece.

[@craigoldsen1667]

Lewis & Clark’s portage around the Great Falls of the Missouri was 18 miles and took around a month to complete.😱

[@nmelkhunter1]

If you haven’t already read Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose I highly recommend it. It is an incredible read.

[@johnmcgregor3671]

I remember watching this more than 20 years ago when it was on tv

[@donaldowens1027]

This documentary reminds me of the Voyageurs and Grand Portage in Minnesota, where the portage was eight miles long.

[@lutomson3496]

ive done the grand portage area trips hauling canoes for miles between rivers and lakes...

[@voornaam3191]

There is also a movie about a discovery journey on the Amazon River, where a complete steam radar ship was hoisted up a hill and lowered on the other side of that hill. In the Amazon jungle. Lots of blood, sweat and fears. But it was based on a true explorer looking for some way to get across South America by ship.

[@donaldowens1027]

@voornaam3191 That sounds a lot like the movie Fitzcarraldo.

[@gabriellarowden9442]

I’ve done it too!

[@miggboyy]

This is uploaded just as I'm reading 'The Company' by Stephen R Bown. Great read if you'd like to learn more about the expanse of the HBC and it's role in shaping modern North America

[@Mojo-IRE]

I've seen this series before. It's great. Proper hard work.

[@robertholmes1366]

David goggins needs in on this

[@williamfunes2740]

😂

[@joshuaholmes5096]

Yeah, but the contract says you agree to live "period appropriate." I'm not sure how that would work for him lol

[@lamontnelson1828]

@@joshuaholmes5096probably a hard pass

[@nancyhammons3594]

I read a book titled The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Edward Beauclerk Maurice. It was outstanding.

[@swgard1]

I’ve heard great things about that book but have yet to read it. That said, I don’t do much reading, but I should.

[@nancyhammons3594]

@@swgard1 You should try it, you might like it. He tells about how he was 17 when he went to The Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to upper parts of Canada. He tells about meeting Inuits and learning from them about trapping animals. I enjoyed it a lot. I have always loved reading, it takes me to places that I would never go when things in my life get crazy.

[@craigmacdonald152]

Most fur trade loads were measured in Troy rather than in Avoirdupois so that each of the required two packs to be carried actually weighed 74 lbs rather than 90 lbs. Having portaged 150 lb loads, I can assure that an average man in good shape can carry this over a reasonably good trail if helped with the loading. The big problem with carrying a load like this with a tump is not the head, neck or back but buckling at the knees on uneven ground. The York boats were meant to be skidded on their keels using four men to a side for steadying the boat while a much larger crew pulled it by rope. This makes for fast travel. The frame shown in the video creates considerable drag on the skid logs making the boat hard to pull.

[@joshuadavies2541]

I watched it all the way through in one sitting. Amazing journey

[@demonique7424]

This was an awesome series. I wish there was a follow up to see if these people stayed in touch.

[@javiertarrios2565]

I love y'all's videos there so good keep up the good work I love how you make history fun and engaging

[@todthomas7362]

I really enjoyed watching this. Just amazing.

[@truthseeker1105]

Ohhh how i love this accent!❤❤❤

[@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours]

Listening from Mackinac Island Michigan

[@lisasmith7854]

I so enjoy these recreations

[@femininityfaith7920]

2 hours in exactly, the pine trees on there heads are great. I can't imagine the suffering from the bugs! 😅🌲 Man this group is tough!! So proud of them at 2:15 😊😊😊😊 As a Christian, the faith scenes are beautiful and touching, and very real and necessary at points 🙏

[@pmenchions]

A burning question since I started watching. How on earth did these boats make it upriver? Given the difficulty of going down river it would appear to be a gargantuan task to take these heavy boats upstream.

[@justbelove]

I wondered the same. Without researching the answer, I wonder if the York men traveled on smaller canoes upstream, and received available York boats made from the interior fur trade posts; this way, the York boats didn't have to go upstream?

[@pmenchions]

@justbelove Later they mentioned that the actual boat crews were larger and several boats traveled together. So, the upstream leg had a lot more manpower than we see here.

[@User_1dashzero]

A man in 1840 would not carry a pack like that. In somewhat rare occasions yes maybe. But for the most part each man packed what they could carry and what they needed. The heaviest packing would’ve been hauling the meat, but most trappers went after small game and used horses to travel. Some of his training ideas don’t make much sense to me but ok lmao People back then were more acclimated to that lifestyle. They weren’t stronger than us, hell most of them might’ve been a little weaker due to food sources. We like to give them credit for being unbelievably strong, but the reality is we just aren’t acclimated to hard work anymore.

[@adamgladfelter8762]

awesome tag-a-long! thanks to everyone involved!

[@douglaskampfer2028]

I am surprised that the TV company didn't try to get modern trappers to do the work, I would have been happy to work on the program, been carrying 100 pound packs for years.

[@juligrlee556]

do you have the power of the winch? Can you use poles as pry bars. I moved some pretty heavy things with leverage bars.

[@mattdobbs-dr2rt]

Incredible journey! Looks almost impossible to navigate through all the lakes and rivers. ❤

[@IonIsFalling7217]

"And Ken Albert Jr worries about everything." I feel seen.

[@cpt.oblivion]

This video is nothing like the title suggests. It's more like a reality show in a wooden boat.

[@canoeman1961]

No. A reality show is a prearranged outcome. Pawn Brokers stages all transactions before filming. Storage Wars prearranges inserting merchandise in lockers to keep the audience interested. All the other ones are scripted and rehearsed before shooting. This adventure could have ended at any time due to the extreme efforts required, and sure could have ended in disaster many times.

[@susanandrews2294]

Yeah exactly I doubt if I can go through much more and it's only 4 min in

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

How did they poop??? I must know

[@swgard1]

Did you finish watching the entirety of the video? I do not believe you would reach this conclusion if you had.

[@cpt.oblivion]

@@swgard1 admittedly I did not.

[@voornaam3191]

There is even a University of York Boat Club. But they got no York Boats like that one in Canada.

[@SuzanneTatham-so1jj]

Hearty Canadians recreating history! Great show.

[@Drakktnigh]

This is going to be amazing

[@cieloycrisis4919]

What is the name of the song at the beginning of the video?

[@Thelonelyscavenger]

Listen to the bay by Samuel sim

[@kerrymarris4260]

And I thought outward bound was difficult. I was only 17. A lot of firsts...

[@adamlangdon2245]

SUGAR !!! The bane of all existence!! 😥😂👏👏👏👏👏i couldn't do this without beer...😂 beer is just liquid sugar and (protein)(?).. and other fun things.. this was a fun video to watch, and for the people involved, I bet this was one and of the great stories or their lives.. what have you ever done worth making a video about..??..playing x box and going to school and work isn't a story.

[@bradd188]

Is it just me or is that pemican not dried out the way it supposed to be ?

[@jinglebelle33]

Heading up the Haye...

[@juligrlee556]

if you tie a rope a hundred feet ahead of the boat and tie the other end tightly to the boat. tugging on the rope midway you will move the boat a foot or two every time you retie the taut rope.

[@519Majestic]

3:14:39 The hull what?!

[@ANXIETOR]

Epic.

[@bunningssausage7803]

It's a shame they could not complete the journey without cheating. It would have been good to see them do the whole trip just like old times.

[@Bcarn1998]

Okay this but the Oregon trail

[@jobis2414]

I’m only an hour in but trying to figure out why they aren’t using mud for the bugs and wondering why they aren’t hunting and gathering, fishing ?

[@meroen_orlando3317]

I mean they have food so fishing wil take time that couldve been spend resting or rowing. And wel mud would make you colder and wet wich isnt exactly good. Saying this im far from an expert on the subject so take this whit a grain of salt.

[@jbgibson2026]

​@@meroen_orlando3317mud is the most effective thing to stop bug bites. Other than better clothes.

[@dynastybros5403]

Does this still happen??

[@outdoorlifemaine6691]

I've been there 24:58

[@benrobertson7855]

First words “ port throtle “ ??? Out from nz.

[@whyisthomyorke]

I’m guessing things could get a little hairy.

[@NathanSingleton-n4v]

Did they realize they can eat and survive off fish too, I’m sure they were able to fish all along the way back in the day.

[@Rob-ji7fx]

I would LOVE to have been on a boat up the Missouri, trapping beaver, killing elk, Buffalo, deer and bear, eating all the steaks north America has to offer, tanning fur, sippin whiskey by the camp fire, the occasional brawl... the life of a man sure enough. I love taking wall tent up in the mountains in the fall to camp out to trap and hunt like the old timers until I run out of vacation time.

[@BuddyCouch-c6t]

They used long poles and sometimes they had to pull from the bank Daniel Boone likened one captain as half horse and half alligator True story

[@brocktonma.1816]

That flutes not annoying at all.

[@williamstephenson6387]

Where's the rifle? They'd have been doing a lot more hunting and fishing back then I would imagine.

[@MrRandyf]

Biggest question what happened to bob

[@ButchcraftBandit]

Well the used about a two ft by two ft square of sheep skin. I know I was there. They would lay it over the ors. 😊

[@norwolf4765]

The men of old were a much tougher breed .....period.

[@josejaimevidalrosales8660]

❤❤

[@kelliv2995]

❤❤❤

[@rogerscottcathey]

1867 the fur trade was practically over, wasn't it?

[@lavalslounge335]

Probably not over but defenatly close to it but since the buffalo fur trade was going on over at the great plains it wasn't really over yet

[@AllanVelkovski-qw6sz]

No just getting started

[@WreckerWarsdotcom]

Great video but, Wont lie, the bugs crawling on the screen at an hour 59 in almost gave me heart failure.

[@brandenforrer2603]

The people of old days were built different and people died if they didn't have a leader

[@scottgilberg6438]

And they had Canadian equivalent of Coast guard along the whole way. If your going to reenact something do a better job. Death was a part of LIFE IN 1840.

[@susanandrews2294]

Oh come on. The strength test is complete b.s. The couriers de bois would NEVER have carried so much weight, supposedly 182 lbs or more, concentrated in just one section of their pack, and certainly not as low down as the poor fools in the first 4 minutes are doing. The real packs were much larger and distributed the weight of the load evenly across the whole back. To concentrate it just on the hips is sheer stupidity.

[@job4him712]

Would the fur traders have had the furs with them or be trapping and hunting on the way?

[@trailertrashed6390]

poor bob

[@petergioello3034]

Too many ads

[@roostershooter76]

Videos of this size need to be cut into a "series". Not many people have 4 Hours to sit and watch a complete Documentary of this size!

[@chuck9693]

I’d say they’re doing a service for putting it all into a single video instead of mllking this as a long season

[@christinalaska]

Did someone strap you in and throw away the key? You can pause videos. You know that right? Sheesh

[@stephenash4555]

Exactly ,pause is your friend 😅​@@christinalaska

[@User_1dashzero]

It’s intended for you to fall asleep so they soak up the ad revenue while you sleep 😂 (It worked)

[@PacksSacks]

Cry about it. U know u can pause n com e back

[@scottgilberg6438]

The guys sitting on their ass, in the background had RUBBER TIRE BUMPERS ON THE BOAT!!! WTF yep 100% real 1840s.

[@randynesbit4497]

Trappers travelled up the Missouri in pole boats literally dragging the boat the whole way from each shore. This is ridiculous

[@scuzzytwo7556]

I bet it was hard living?

[@baggiobeer5918]

they don't fish why is that

[@globyois]

They failed to take advantages of numerous opportunities the wilderness offers to make their journey more comfortable.

[@douglaskampfer2028]

It is quite obvious that these folks don't know the ways of the fur trade, for mosquitoes you use birch punk mushrooms it smudges bugs away, also birch oil was used as a bug repellent, speak to my family the Cree, they will show you.

[@lutomson3496]

go to the 16th and later century traders the 19 means nothing on our farm we had an old french cabin part of the indie and hudson companies this garbage is not true..and as a kid i had my traplines set for muskrat, beaver, fox, otter following in my ancestors and native american ancestory

[@juliogonzalez8863]

They are supposed to be trappers. Why are they not trapping or fishing for food when they make camp.

[@jeffreyhemphill3831]

The camera guy said he was excited to do something no one has done before, but isn't the point of them doing this literally that some have already done this before?

[@jasonjamesbisson]

Ever sick !! 😂

[@bigskunk801]

Each only gets 10K seems like a ripoff. I’ll bet the camera operator will make more than that.

[@dopedreamz]

Has nothing to do with the money tho. Today that’s a realistic necessity but I’d do it for free if I didn’t have a wife and kids.

[@bigskunk801]

@@dopedreamz it’s the real smart people who contradict themselves and seemingly don’t have much brains.

[@dopedreamz]

@@bigskunk801 how so, I’m a stay at home dad of 5 kids. If I didn’t have the responsibilities of a wife and children or I were 19 with no financial obligations I’d do it free for the experience, the same as I’ve climbed the 46 high peaks of the Adirondacks... How is expressing the realities of today’s economy somehow ignorant?

[@bigskunk801]

@@dopedreamz what makes you think I care who you are? My comment is my opinion. Why should I care what you would do? I get it. You don’t agree with my comment and reply to your reply. It’s weird that people like you leave replies of your life story. Maybe consider letting people have their opinions without feeling the need to express yours.

[@dopedreamz]

@@bigskunk801 ok, I was trying to provide prospective instead of saying you were shallow if you couldn’t understand the benefits of such a journey if it doesn’t pay more… but sure… no value at all except the 10k 😂🤣😂🤣

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Makes me wonder how they pooped???

[@chrissmith3509]

You city people are funny.😂

[@Banditt42]

All that effort for some fur. It doesn't seem justified.

[@PacksSacks]

It was HUGE money then. Think like they harvesting Gucci and Louie clothes. Fur made them profit let alone paying for such an expensive expedition

[@mac3ron1]

Modern man, will still go to great lengths for a furry beaver

[@scottgilberg6438]

Scared and naked...... On discovery Channel has more precedence. This sucks.

[@brandenforrer2603]

Have any of them ever ben through anything difficult. They clearly have never ben hungry with all the bicthing about the food

[@ILoveA-Z]

Scammers 😂😂😂 I stop watching at 7 minute

[@scottgilberg6438]

Loose this video. It's not even 50% true. Your better than this utube. I'm a prime member. Watched 1000 documentaries. Loose it

[@PUBGSLAYER3363]

fur stealing it should say,

[@viking0116]

Women didn’t do this job.

[@javiertarrios2565]

First frfr

[@MyYTchannel.thenationalrazor]

DEI

[@ApacheBob41]

A gay crew.

[@a1971-d6d]

The only thing you need to do next, is to accept the LORD JESUS CHRIST as your savior. John 3:16 Context 13And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

[@adrianwelch1435]

who cares

[@innerspacesurfer]

I do. What's your point exactly?

[@Banditt42]

you do otherwise you wouldn't be here

[@canoeman1961]

You mean about you ? There I'm in 100 % agreement with you.

[@twilight-pictures]

A challenge. Knowing you can quit and go back to your 21st century good life. They couldn"t.