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Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. Daniel Laxer uncovers songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.

Fur trade --- Fur traders --- History --- Songs and music --- History and criticism. --- 1700-1899 --- Canada --- Fiddle. --- French Voyageurs. --- Indigenous dances. --- Metis. --- Montreal merchants. --- Step-dancing. --- ceremonies. --- commercial compacts. --- early Canadian commerce. --- economy. --- instruments. --- intangible cultural heritage. --- jigging. --- musical interactions. --- practices. --- pre-Confederation. --- sound-making. --- trading posts. --- traditional. --- E-books