Show Beaver Mentioned Mentioned Often Often 1 in History of Old Wo World rid 1 The beaver Is not peculiar to Amer Ira ni nl It la fa mentioned frequently 11 ii n i. i c- c t history and Is met with la lafo fo sis anil old place names In tn Euro Europe j and Asia Asa The use of beaver heaver for the the manufacture of top hats dates bark back to before the discovery of tho the New Net 1 world When the vast resources of ot the forests of ot th the New world became 4 known beaver wool became th the India Indis I I material for the fashionable European hat Nearly a I century and anda 1 I Ia a half after the discovery disco of America we Ve at ot length find And Charles I 1 in ift I Iby by royal proc proclamation prohibiting the use of any materials except be beaver tet I wool In the tho manufacture of hats nn- nn J less trade made for e exportation j Less than a century thereafter the i beaver er appeared to have been almost totally exterminated from the colonies colonl to the south of ot the SL St Lawrence and the great lakes Tho The French traders In 1743 Imported Into Roc Rochelle elle SOO beaver skins and tho the British BUdson's Hudson's Hudsons Hud BUd d sons son's Bay Ilay company sold skins skim the same 5 year car Within less than halt half halfa a century afterwards s when Canada l had 1 become a n British possession the trade In beaver peltries seems to have hare reached Its maximum and to have luTe b been n maintained with only a 11 slight d decline de cline till the commencement of the present century In 1734 upwards of at beaver skins were exported export from Canada and the value ot forwarded to England from Quebec alone In n 1803 1503 Is estimated at near nearly h |