areaendezvous, the actual where things were transferred back was all the way up over here in mackinac during the same time, in the spring of the year, all of the trade goods are coming from off the map here in montrÉal, but across this area where there are s, prettyportage difficult travel, all the way across, and then into lake h uron. all the large bones are going to take the furs back and get back on time before it gets too cold. all of the trade goods are going to come in the smaller canoes back with a traitor and his voyageurs back to green bay to be treated with the native americans. fur trade the -- the fur trade was active for nearly 200 years. it was prosperous for all nationalities involved, the french, british, and the americans. the way that the french ran the fur trade was probably the best way that anybody could run the fur trade. they really understood the indians. at least as far as the indians thought, they really cared about them. they took on their customs. there was a really great cultural exchange. they intermarried with the native americans and started a whole ot