CHASSEURS ET TRAPPEURS
La trappe est une activité qui a eu une grande importance économique et historique pour le Canada. Depuis le début de l’histoire de l’humanité, les gens piègent les animaux pour leur fourrure, leur viande et d’autres précieux produits.
Dans notre région, le piégeage existe depuis très longtemps puisque les peuples autochtones qui l'habitaient, bien avant l'arrivée des Européens vers les 1600, subsistaient sûrement de la pêche et de la chasse.
Dès le dix-huitième siècle, les frères Denys de la Ronde, de la Compagnie du Nord-ouest, faisaient la traite des fourrures dans la région de Nipissing-Ouest. Le poste de traite, situé sur la Rivière aux Esturgeons, est passé à la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson en 1821. Le site est occupé aujourd'hui par le Musée Sturgeon River House, à 5 km en aval de la Chute aux Esturgeons, chute que les Ojibway appelaient Bawitig name good (la danse des eaux et du gros poisson: traduction libre) auteur: Pierre Leriche.
Aujourd'hui dans la région, la trappe est encore bien vivante, l'article qui suit publié le 14 février 2017, en faisant preuve:
Local trappers seeing higher prices for fur this year
Référence : https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/local-trappers-seeing-higher-prices-for-fur-this-year-535420
Fur prices are up, and that's good news for area trappers. Fur Harvesters Auction is located in North Bay, and is the source of some of the finest wild fur for the international fur fashion industry. Fur brokers, wholesalers and manufacturers come to this city for the extraordinary selection of wild fur available only in North Bay. Sales at the two-day auctions here reach about seven million dollars each. So it's good for the local economy that Canadian trappers are receiving the strongest prices in years for their pelts at the auction held at the end of January in North Bay. "We've seen a rise over last year," CEO Mark Downey told BayToday. "We came off a high in 2013 which was the industry's all-time high, but with problems with Russia and Crimea, the Asian stock market prices have been going down but we're seeing a resurgence of interest and prices." North Bay held the first wild fur auction this year.
Pour lire la suite, cliquer sur le lien suivant
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/local-trappers-seeing-higher-prices-for-fur-this-year-535420
Aujourd'hui, tous les trappeurs récoltant de la fourrure doivent détenir un permis de piégeage. Le permis identifie la région où le trappeur peut placer ses pièges et spécifie les quotas de récolte pour certaines espèces, par exemple, le castor.
Pour en connaître davantage sur les lois à suivre, la saison de piégeage, les espèces à piéger légalement, etc., voir le site web suivant:
https://www.ontario.ca/fr/page/le-piegeage-en-ontario
Un trappeur bien connu de la région a écrit et publié un livre de ses expériences comme trappeur. Il s'agit de Alcide Giroux, originaire de River Valley et maintenant résident de Sturgeon Falls.
Un article publié dans La Tribune nous donne un aperçu de l'homme et de son livre.
La trappe est une activité qui a eu une grande importance économique et historique pour le Canada. Depuis le début de l’histoire de l’humanité, les gens piègent les animaux pour leur fourrure, leur viande et d’autres précieux produits.
Dans notre région, le piégeage existe depuis très longtemps puisque les peuples autochtones qui l'habitaient, bien avant l'arrivée des Européens vers les 1600, subsistaient sûrement de la pêche et de la chasse.
Dès le dix-huitième siècle, les frères Denys de la Ronde, de la Compagnie du Nord-ouest, faisaient la traite des fourrures dans la région de Nipissing-Ouest. Le poste de traite, situé sur la Rivière aux Esturgeons, est passé à la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson en 1821. Le site est occupé aujourd'hui par le Musée Sturgeon River House, à 5 km en aval de la Chute aux Esturgeons, chute que les Ojibway appelaient Bawitig name good (la danse des eaux et du gros poisson: traduction libre) auteur: Pierre Leriche.
Aujourd'hui dans la région, la trappe est encore bien vivante, l'article qui suit publié le 14 février 2017, en faisant preuve:
Local trappers seeing higher prices for fur this year
Référence : https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/local-trappers-seeing-higher-prices-for-fur-this-year-535420
Fur prices are up, and that's good news for area trappers. Fur Harvesters Auction is located in North Bay, and is the source of some of the finest wild fur for the international fur fashion industry. Fur brokers, wholesalers and manufacturers come to this city for the extraordinary selection of wild fur available only in North Bay. Sales at the two-day auctions here reach about seven million dollars each. So it's good for the local economy that Canadian trappers are receiving the strongest prices in years for their pelts at the auction held at the end of January in North Bay. "We've seen a rise over last year," CEO Mark Downey told BayToday. "We came off a high in 2013 which was the industry's all-time high, but with problems with Russia and Crimea, the Asian stock market prices have been going down but we're seeing a resurgence of interest and prices." North Bay held the first wild fur auction this year.
Pour lire la suite, cliquer sur le lien suivant
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/local-trappers-seeing-higher-prices-for-fur-this-year-535420
Aujourd'hui, tous les trappeurs récoltant de la fourrure doivent détenir un permis de piégeage. Le permis identifie la région où le trappeur peut placer ses pièges et spécifie les quotas de récolte pour certaines espèces, par exemple, le castor.
Pour en connaître davantage sur les lois à suivre, la saison de piégeage, les espèces à piéger légalement, etc., voir le site web suivant:
https://www.ontario.ca/fr/page/le-piegeage-en-ontario
Un trappeur bien connu de la région a écrit et publié un livre de ses expériences comme trappeur. Il s'agit de Alcide Giroux, originaire de River Valley et maintenant résident de Sturgeon Falls.
Un article publié dans La Tribune nous donne un aperçu de l'homme et de son livre.
Coup d'oeil sur Alcide Giroux (2008)
Giroux, Alcide “Ti Loup” 1945-2018
Very proud father of his sons Robin and Serge (Tisha) both of Sturgeon Falls. With heavy hearts but with gratitude for a life well lived, the Giroux family announces with deep sadness the sudden and unexpected death of a man “full of dreams and plans for the future”, Alcide Giroux on Tuesday February 20, 2018 at the age of 72 years. Son of the late Philippe Giroux, who Alcide said was born with a built in GPS ,and the late Exilda Giroux who always had baked cookies on the old wood stove. Alcide was predeceased by his precious wife Pat (née Leger) on May 30, 2011. “We had been together for fourty-four years and nine months. It was a very sad day but I was consoled a little when I read what she had wrote; I HAD A GREAT LIFE”. Ti-Loup found renewed love and happiness once more when he met and married Denise Beaudry in later years.
Alcide will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by his grandchildren, Aimée, Anik and Samina as well as by his great grandson Ethan. Loving brother of Maurice (Claire) of River Valley, Marie Jeanne Vezina Theriault (Albert) and Simon (Linda) all of Val Caron, Bernadette Denis (Michel) of Hanmer, Gisèle Giroux of Windsor and Jean (Nicole) of Sturgeon Falls. Predeceased by his sisters Gilberte Denis (Jean Yves of Sudbury) and Henriette Michaud (Conrad of Windsor).
Alcide dedicated much of his career to serving the fur industry and society. As a volunteer, he was active on numerous boards, committees and in executive positions in prominent organizations including The Fur Institute of Canada, the Ontario Trappers Association and the Trappers International Marketing Service.
Alcide was a key spokesperson for trappers with the media, government, and in many international forums in the US, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belarus and elsewhere. Above all, he promoted Canada as the world leader in the responsible and sustainable use of wild furbearers, and in the development of humane trapping standards and pioneering trapper-education programs.
Alcide was one of the first trappers to reach out to the broader society to explain the unique role of trappers in conservation efforts. His work was recognized with several industry awards including the Victor Goodman Award (Furriers Guild of Canada, 1987), Lloyd Cook Award for excellence in trapping, trapper education, and promoting public understanding of wildlife management (2001) Maurice Memorial Award (Fur Council of Canada, 2005), and Chevalier de la Confrèrie des Culs d’Ours, France (2001).
Alcide’s autobiography, My First 60 Years Enjoying Nature as a Trapper, provides a unique record of a life lived close to the land, of his love and respect for nature, and of his loyalty to the traditions of his ancestors.
The family will receive friends at the Theoret Bourgeois Funeral Home, Sturgeon Falls on Friday February 23rd 2018 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, February 24th 2018 at 10:00 am., in Ste Rose de Lima Church, River Valley. The celebration of Alcide’s life with reception will continue after the funeral mass in the gymnasium of Christ-Roy school, River Valley. Donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Fur Harvesters or the charity of your choice would be appreciated. (Cheques only.)
Alcide dedicated much of his career to serving the fur industry and society. As a volunteer, he was active on numerous boards, committees and in executive positions in prominent organizations including The Fur Institute of Canada, the Ontario Trappers Association and the Trappers International Marketing Service.
Alcide was a key spokesperson for trappers with the media, government, and in many international forums in the US, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belarus and elsewhere. Above all, he promoted Canada as the world leader in the responsible and sustainable use of wild furbearers, and in the development of humane trapping standards and pioneering trapper-education programs.
Alcide was one of the first trappers to reach out to the broader society to explain the unique role of trappers in conservation efforts. His work was recognized with several industry awards including the Victor Goodman Award (Furriers Guild of Canada, 1987), Lloyd Cook Award for excellence in trapping, trapper education, and promoting public understanding of wildlife management (2001) Maurice Memorial Award (Fur Council of Canada, 2005), and Chevalier de la Confrèrie des Culs d’Ours, France (2001).
Alcide’s autobiography, My First 60 Years Enjoying Nature as a Trapper, provides a unique record of a life lived close to the land, of his love and respect for nature, and of his loyalty to the traditions of his ancestors.
The family will receive friends at the Theoret Bourgeois Funeral Home, Sturgeon Falls on Friday February 23rd 2018 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, February 24th 2018 at 10:00 am., in Ste Rose de Lima Church, River Valley. The celebration of Alcide’s life with reception will continue after the funeral mass in the gymnasium of Christ-Roy school, River Valley. Donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Fur Harvesters or the charity of your choice would be appreciated. (Cheques only.)
Un autre trappeur de la région de Warren, Marc Landry, m'a donné la permission d'afficher cette photo d'une martre qu'il a piégiée en janvier 2018.
Un peu d'info sur la martre :
- Elle est active durant environ 16 heures par jour au printemps et en été
- Elle est une grimpeuse agile, mais elle attrape presque toutes ses proies au sol
- Elle fait preuve d’une curiosité, d’une férocité et d’une instantanéité, des réflexes caractéristiques de la famille des belettes
- Elle porte une fourrure qui se vend généralement à prix fort sous le nom de zibeline du Canada ou d’Amérique
- Référence : http://www.hww.ca/fr/faune/mammiferes/la-martre.html?referrer=https://www.google.ca/