Author: Sir William SchoolingPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Company
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
History.
The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson's Bay During Two Hundred and Fifty Years, 1670-1920
Author: Sir William SchoolingPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Company
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
History.
The Progress of America
Author: John MacGregorGeographical and statistical
Author: John MacgregorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1440
Book Description
Commercial statistics, a digest of the productive resources [&c.] of all nations
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Author: John MacgregorRiver Rough, River Smooth
Author: Anthony DaltonPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 177070597X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Manitoba's Hayes River runs over six hundred kilometers from near Norway House to Hudson Bay. On its rush to the sea, the Hayes races over forty-five rapids and waterfalls as it drops down from the Precambrian Shield to the Hudson Bay Lowlands. This great waterway, the largest naturally flowing river in Manitoba, served as the highway for settlers bound for the Red River colony, ferrying their worldly goods in York boats and canoes, struggling against the mighty currents. Traditionally used for transport and hunting by the indigenous Cree, the Hayes became a major fur trade route in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, being explored by such luminaries (Pierre Radisson (1682), Henry Kelsey (1690) David Thompson (1784), Sir John Franklin (1819), and J.B. Tyrrell (1892). This is the account of the author's invitational journey on the Hayes from Norway House to Oxford House by traditional York boat with a crew of First Nation Cree, and later, from Oxford House to York Factory by canoe in the company of other intrepid canoeists – modern-day voyageurs reliving the past.
Cartographic Encounters
Author: G. Malcolm LewisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226476940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Ever since a native American prepared a paper "charte" of the lower Colorado River for the Spaniard Hernando de Alarcon in 1540, native Americans have been making maps in the course of encounters with whites (the most recent maps often support land claims). This book charts the history of these cartographic encounters, examining native maps and mapmaking from the earliest contacts onward.
Fur
Author: Jonathan FaiersPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300227205
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur's fashionable and controversial history The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur--long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status--became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion. Divided into five sections--dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece--the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.
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