Up until 1900, Charles Dalton and Robert Oulton were the only individuals breeding foxes in the West Prince area of…
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When the fox industry began in Prince Edward Island, Canada, foxes were kept in communal enclosures. When in these enclosures,…
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Armand Herscovici, grandfather of Truth About Fur’s senior researcher Alan Herscovici, learned the furrier’s art from his father in Paris, before…
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An archival picture of fur buyers at a Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) fur auction held in Montreal in the early…
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1929 – A look into the Seattle Fur Exchange grading area filled with fur buyers and smocked graders evaluating and…
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1 Lime Street, London, England, circa 1924.  One year later (1925), to mark the 255th anniversary of the Company, Beaver…
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When I lived in Willow River, British Columbia, I stumbled on a very old log house in the woods by…
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Show lots of marten fur in the third floor warehouse of the Hudson’s Bay Company headquarters, at 1 Lime Street,…
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1950’s – Graders at Seattle Fur Exchange inspect every pelt to evaluate and sort by quality, color and length of…
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1973 – A view from the stand of the American Legend (formerly Seattle Fur Exchange) auction room.  It is filled…
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Fox farming began on Prince Edward Island, Canada. One of the pioneers was Sir Charles Dalton, who had a farm…
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Alan Herscovici is the founder and senior researcher of Truth About Fur. In 2015, he took a voyage to the…
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