THE HUSKIES GO

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3440, 8 March 1932, Page 6

THE HUSKIES GO

USE OF AEROPLANES FOR FUR TRANSPORT.

Northern Canada's fur barons have gone "air-minded" in a big way, and the day of husky dogs wearily plodding over hundreds of miles of bush country and barren land to bring heavy catches of fur to the rails from the lonely trading posts scattered in the far north has passed entirely. * Daily aeroplanes are passing through the frontier towns of The Pas heading northward to bring down the rich furs to rush them to the leading cities of the continent to take advantage of the good market prevailing in the east and across the line, says the "Montreal Star." The huge Junkers freighter of the Canadian Airways has established a base at Cold Lake, 90 miles north of The Pas, and picks up furs from all the Hudson's Bay Company posts in the North-west Territories and Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan that can be served from there.

Other companies have been quick to see the advantage of the speedy 'plane in bringing choice furs to the market, and Del Simons Company and Revillon Freres will" both race the Hudson Bay Company to the market with furs.

The days of actual warfare among fur trading companies are past. But the fierce struggle to bring the furs to the market has caused the discarding of the colourful dog teams. Roaring 'planes now shatter the silence of the North as the struggle for mastery of the fur markets that featured the very earliest days of Canada's history continues.