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Wednesday, June 28, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C5 C A N A D AD A Y How the beaver developed in our country A Liberata Medal" was struck. A seated fter the early Europeans woman, representing France, with explorers had realized a beaver at her feet, represent that Canada was not ing Canada, appeared on the the spice-rich Orient, the back. main mercantile attraction The beaver was included in was the beaver population the armorial bearings of the numbering in the millions. City of Montreal when it was In the late 1600s and early incorporated as a city in 1700s, the fashion of the day 1833. Sir Sandford Fleming demanded fur hats, which assured the beaver a position needed beaver pelts. As these as a national symbol when he fea hats became more popular, the tured it on the first Canadian postage demand for the pelts grew. King Henry IV of France saw the fur trade as stamp - the "Three Penny Beaver" of 1851. The beaver also appeared with the maple leaf an opportunity to acquire much-needed revenue and to establish a North American empire. Both on the masthead of Le Canadien, a newspaper English and French fur traders were soon sell published in Lower Canada. For a time, it was one of the emblems of the ing beaver pelts in Europe at 20 times their orig Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste. It is still found on inal purchase price. The trade of beaver pelts proved so lucrative the crest of the Canadian Pacific Railway that the Hudson's Bay Company honoured the Company. Despite all this recognition, the beaver was buck-toothed little animal by putting it on the shield of its coat of arms in 1678. Sir William close to extinction by the mid-19th century. Alexander, who was granted title to Nova There were an estimated six million beavers in Scotia in 1621, had been the first to include the Canada before the start of the fur trade. During its peak, 100,000 pelts were being shipped to beaver in a coat of arms. The Hudson's Bay Company shield consists Europe each year; the Canadian beaver was in of four beavers separated by a red St. George's danger of being wiped out. Luckily, about that Cross and reflects the importance of this indus time, Europeans took a liking to silk hats and trious rodent to the company. A coin was creat the demand for beaver pelts all but disappeared. The beaver attained official status as an ed to equal the value of one beaver pelt. Also, in 1678 Louis de Buade de Frontenac, emblem of Canada when an "act to provide for then Governor of New France, suggested the the recognition of the beaver (castor canaden beaver as a suitable emblem for the colony, and sis) as a symbol of the sovereignty of Canada" proposed it be included in the armorial bearings received royal assent on March 24, 1975. Today, thanks to conservation and silk hats, of Quebec City. 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