Friends Foes And Furs

Author : Harry W. Duckworth
Publisher : MQUP
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228000006

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Friends, Foes, and Furs by Harry W. Duckworth Pdf

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.

Author : Harry W. Duckworth
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228000013

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Friends, Foes, and Furs by Harry W. Duckworth Pdf

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.

Author : George Nelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0773523782

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My First Years in the Fur Trade by George Nelson Pdf

Written when Nelson was between the ages of 15 and 17, these journals track his growth from homesick boy to weathered and experienced trader. The volume also tells of his daily work as a fur clerk, and the goings-on of the world around him; and it provides details concerning the lives of the other fur workers and the neighboring Objiwa peoples. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Louis Bird
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773576926

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Spirit Lives in the Mind by Louis Bird Pdf

"In The Spirit Lives in the Mind the renowned storyteller and historian of the Omushkego shares teachings and stories of the Swampy Cree [Winisk Northern Ontario region] people that have been passed down from generation to generation as part of a rich oral tradition. Cree spiritual beliefs revolve around the sacred places and rich landscape of the Hudson Bay lowlands. [James Bay region also.] The beautiful narratives in The Spirit Lives in the Mind illuminate the meaning and value of spiritual maturity and power, the parallels between Omushkego morality and Roman Catholic teachings, and the importance of maintaining the traditional stories. Bird also offers explanations of shamanism and demonstrates how Catholicism affected Cree tradition. Bird collaborated with Susan Elaine Gray, who worked from many years of learning about and teaching Aboriginal culture and traditions in compiling his narratives and personal testament for The Spirit Lives in the Mind. It is a remarkable evocation of aboriginal storytelling about the Cree peoples, their landscape, and their places in the sky."--Pub. website.

Author : Brian Gettler
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228002536

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Colonialism's Currency by Brian Gettler Pdf

Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money - in many forms - provided an effective means of disseminating colonial social values, laying claim to national space, and disciplining colonized peoples. Colonialism's Currency analyzes the historical experiences and interactions of three distinct First Nations - the Wendat of Wendake, the Innu of Mashteuiatsh, and the Moose Factory Cree - with monetary forms and practices created by colonial powers. Whether treaty payments and welfare provisions such as the paper vouchers favoured by the Department of Indian Affairs, the Canadian Dominion's standardized paper notes, or the "made beaver" (the Hudson's Bay Company's money of account), each monetary form allowed the state to communicate and enforce political, economic, and cultural sovereignty over Indigenous peoples and their lands. Surveying a range of historical cases, Brian Gettler shows how currency simultaneously placed First Nations beyond the bounds of settler society while justifying colonial interventions in their communities. Testifying to the destructive and the legitimizing power of money, Colonialism's Currency is an intriguing exploration of the complex relationship between First Nations and the state.

Author : Richard I. Ruggles
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773561885

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A Country So Interesting by Richard I. Ruggles Pdf

A vital part of A Country So Interesting are the annotated catalogues of all the maps known to have been produced by the Hudson's Bay Company: 838 maps and 557 sketches. While most are in the Company's archives in Manitoba, Ruggles has tracked down maps in other collections, particularly in various libraries in London, England. Also included are sixty-six reproductions of the most important maps and map details.

Author : Regina Flannery
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773565722

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Ellen Smallboy by Regina Flannery Pdf

Flannery recounts Smallboy's childhood at Lake Kesagami, her father's early death and the effect of this tragedy, her marriage to Simon Smallboy and move to French River, and her old age at Moose Factory. Through Smallboy's anecdotes and episodes in her life, long-vanished values and norms of Cree society are illustrated and recorded. A concise history of European contact with James Bay Cree by John Long and a summary of literature on the Cree of Moose Factory and James Bay by Laura Peers place Smallboy's life in historical context.

Author : North West Company
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773520988

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North of Athabasca by North West Company Pdf

The fur trade has been an important building block in Canada's history. While much is known about the Hudson's Bay Company, information about the North West Company in the Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Districts has been scattered in various archives. In North of Athabasca Lloyd Keith provides the first detailed, document-based history of this pioneering company.

Author : Dale Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597068

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Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Volume 1 by Dale Gibson Pdf

Inhabited by a diverse population of First Nations peoples, Métis, Scots, Upper and Lower Canadians, and Americans, and dominated by the commercial and governmental activities of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Red River – now Winnipeg – was a challenging settlement to oversee. This illuminating account presents the story of the unique legal and governmental system that attempted to do so and the mixed success it encountered, culminating in the 1869–70 Red River Rebellion and confederation with Canada in 1870. In Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Dale Gibson provides rich, revealing glimpses into the community, and its complex relations with the Hudson’s Bay: the colony’s owner, and primary employer. Volume 1 details the history of the settlement’s establishment, development, and ambivalent relationship with the legal and undemocratic, but gradually, grudgingly, slightly, more representitive, governmental institutions forming in the area, and the legal system’s evolving engagement with the Aboriginal population. A vivid look into early settler life, Law, Life, and Government at Red River offers insights into the political, commercial, and legal circumstances that unfolded during western expansion.

Author : Dario Gamboni
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226280554

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The Brush and the Pen by Dario Gamboni Pdf

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840–1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as “the painter-writer,” he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarmé for his subject matter. And yet he concluded that visual art has nothing to do with literature. Examining this apparent contradiction, The Brush and the Pen transforms the way we understand Redon’s career and brings to life the interaction between writers and artists in fin-de-siècle Paris. Dario Gamboni tracks Redon’s evolution from collaboration with the writers of symbolism and decadence to a defense of the autonomy of the visual arts. He argues that Redon’s conversion was the symptom of a mounting crisis in the relationship between artists and writers, provoked at the turn of the century by the growing power of art criticism that foreshadowed the modernist separation of the arts into intractable fields. In addition to being a distinguished study of this provocative artist, The Brush and the Pen offers a critical reappraisal of the interaction of art, writing, criticism, and government institutions in late nineteenth-century France.

Author : Samantha Seeley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469664828

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Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain by Samantha Seeley Pdf

Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country's founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which categories of people could remain and which should be subject to removal. The result was a white Republic, purposefully constructed through contentious legal, political, and diplomatic negotiation. But, as Samantha Seeley demonstrates, removal, like the right to remain, was a battle fought on multiple fronts. It encompassed tribal leaders' fierce determination to expel white settlers from Native lands and free African Americans' legal maneuvers both to remain within the states that sought to drive them out and to carve out new lives in the West. Never losing sight of the national implications of regional conflicts, Seeley brings us directly to the battlefield, to middle states poised between the edges of slavery and freedom where removal was both warmly embraced and hotly contested. Reorienting the history of U.S. expansion around Native American and African American histories, Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.

Author : Michael D. Delong,Timothy D. Jardine,Arthur C. Benke,Colbert E. Cushing
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 1109 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780128188484

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Rivers of North America by Michael D. Delong,Timothy D. Jardine,Arthur C. Benke,Colbert E. Cushing Pdf

Rivers of North America, Second Edition features new updates on rivers included in the first edition, as well as brand new information on additional rivers. This new edition expands the knowledge base, providing readers with a broader comparative approach to understand both the common and distinct attributes of river networks. The first edition addressed the three primary disciplines of river science: hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology. This new edition expands upon the interactive nature of these disciplines, showing how they define the organization of a riverine landscape and its processes. An essential resource for river scientists working in ecology, hydrology, and geomorphology. Provides a single source of information on North America’s major rivers Features authoritative information on more than 200 rivers from regional specialists Includes full-color photographs and topographical maps to illustrate the beauty, major features, and uniqueness of each river system Offers one-page summaries help readers quickly find key statistics and make comparisons among rivers

Author : James A. Clifton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045691998

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The Prairie People by James A. Clifton Pdf

In addition to reprinting the full text of Clifton's extraordinary ethnohistory, this expanded edition features a new essay offering a narrative of his continuing professional and personal encounters, since 1962, with this enduring native community. -- ‡c From back cover.

Author : John Reda
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501757020

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From Furs to Farms by John Reda Pdf

Author : Charlotte M. Yonge
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781554807949

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A Book of Golden Deeds (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) by Charlotte M. Yonge Pdf