Author: Hudson's Bay Record SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publications of the Hudson's Bay Record Society
Author: Hudson's Bay Record SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Keepers of the Record
Author: Deidre SimmonsPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560491
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Keepers of the Record".
Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1870
Author: Edwin Ernest RichThe Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor, 1821-1869
Author: John S. GalbraithPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.
Publications of Hudson's Bay Record Society
Author: Hudson's Bay Company, 1821-1869
Author: John S. GalbraithPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
Author: Helen M. BussPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson’s Bay Company sent men to its furthest posts along the coast of North America’s Pacific Northwest, the letters of those who cared for those men followed them in the Company’s supply ships. Sometimes, these letters missed their objects – the men had returned to Britain, or deserted their ships, or died. The Company returned the correspondence to its London office and over the years amassed a file of “undelivered letters.” Many of these remained sealed for 150 years and until they were opened by archivist Judith Hudson Beattie, when the Company archives were moved to Canada. These letters tell the fascinating stories of ordinary people whose lives are rarely recounted in traditional histories. Beattie and Helen M. Buss skilfully introduce us to both the lives of the letter writers and their would-be recipients. Their commentaries frame, for contemporary readers, the words of early nineteenth century working and middle class British folk as well as letters to “voyageurs” from Quebec. The stories of their lives – fathers struggling to support a family, widowed mothers yearning to see their sons, bereft sweethearts left behind, and wives raising their children alone – reach out over two centuries to offer rare insight into the varied worlds of men and women in the early nineteenth century, many of whom became settlers in Washington, Oregon, and the new British colony of Vancouver Island.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Author: Francess G. HalpennyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802034526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Friends, Foes, and Furs
Author: Harry W. DuckworthPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228000017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade. Friends, Foes, and Furs is a critical edition of Nelson's daily journals, supplemented with exciting anecdotes from his "Reminiscences," which were written after his retirement to Lower Canada. An introduction and annotations by Harry Duckworth place Nelson's material securely within the established body of fur trade history. This series of journals gives readers a first-person account of Nelson's life and career, from his arrival at the age of eighteen in Lake Winnipeg, where he was stationed as an apprentice clerk from 1804 to 1813, to his second service from 1818 to 1819 and an 1822 canoe journey through the region. A keen and respectful observer, Nelson recorded in his daily journals not only the minutiae of his work, but also details about the lives of voyageurs, the Ojibwe and Swampy Cree communities, and others involved in the fur trade. His insights uncover an extraordinary view of the Lake Winnipeg region in the period just prior to European settlement. Making the full extent of George Nelson's journals available for the first time, Friends, Foes, and Furs is an intriguing account of one man's adventures in the fur trade in prairie Canada.