To learn more about the fur trade, consult these resources:

Web sites:
"Exploration, the Fur Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company," a Histori.ca web exhibit:
http://www.canadiana.org/hbc/

Hudson's Bay Company Official History:
http://www.hbc.com/hbc/e_hi/default.htm

The Yellow Knife Fort Journal:
https://www.pwnhc.ca/exhibits/nv/ykfort.htm

The North West Company:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc/

Books:
Innis, Harold. The Fur Trade in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.

Ray, Arthur J. and Donald B. Freeman. "Give Us Good Measure": an economic analysis of relations between the Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company before 1763. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.

Krech, S., ed. The Subarctic fur trade : native social and economic adaptations. Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press, 1984.

Helm, June. The People of Denendeh: Ethnohistory of Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 2000.

Articles:
Helm, June and D. Damas. "The Contact Traditional All-Native Community of the Canadian North: The Upper Mackenzie "Bush" Athapaskans and the Igluligmiut." Anthropologica. 5(1), 1963, pp.9-22.