Rendezvous (fur trade)

One type of rendezvous is associated with the voyageur and canoe-based fur trade business which was largely in Canada during the times of the year when the waterways were not frozen, and provided opportunities for new friends and foes.

[1] These were generally at a transportation transfer point on a wilderness route that could not be traversed in one season[2] run by and including the fur trade of only a single company.

[3] Rendezvous held in the western part of what is now the United States included a more diverse range of activities than their northern counterparts.

These were often a temporary "town" of sorts with businesses which offered the fur trade workers and participants ways to spend their money on supplies and revelry.

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