Hudson S Bay Company

Author : Stephen Bown
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385694094

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The Company by Stephen Bown Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.

Author : Elle Andra-Warner
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926613147

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Hudson's Bay Company Adventures by Elle Andra-Warner Pdf

The early history of the Hudson’s Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers, the HBC attracted many memorable characters. Explorer Henry Kelsey was the first European to see the buffalo herds. James Knight met a mysterious fate on a frozen northern island. Brave Isabel Gunn worked in the fur trade disguised as a man. Anyone who enjoys historical adventure will relish these exciting stories of Canada’s oldest company.

Author : John S. Galbraith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hudson's Bay Company, 1821-1869 by John S. Galbraith Pdf

Author : Scott P. Stephen
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781772124972

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Masters and Servants by Scott P. Stephen Pdf

“[Stephen] offers fresh insight into the path a historic fur trading business took to become one of Canada’s most recognizable retailers.” —Literary Review of Canada In Masters and Servants, Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company’s interests, these men were hired like domestic servants, joining a “household” with its attendant norms of duty and loyalty. The household system produced a remarkably stable political-economic entity, connecting early North American resource extraction to larger trends in British imperialism. Through painstaking research, Stephen shines welcome light on the lives of these largely overlooked individuals. An essential book for labor historians, Masters and Servants will appeal to scholars of early modern Britain, the North American fur trade, Western social history, business history, and anyone intrigued by the reach of the HBC. “Blacksmiths, bookkeepers, loggers, tanners, coopers, cooks, sail-makers, interpreters, surveyors, clergy, the list goes on as Stephen marches us through the lives of the early Hudson’s Bay worker.” —The Ormsby Review “Overall, the book reflects the work of a historian comfortable with the hard work of archival research and with an eye for detail and insightful quotations. In many respects, it does for Hudson’s Bay Company employees what Carolyn Podruchny’s Making the Voyageur World did for employees of the Montreal-based fur trade companies in recreating their values, worldview, and distinctive work environment.” —Michael Payne, Prairie History

Author : George Bryce
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752338935

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The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company by George Bryce Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company by George Bryce

Author : James Raffan
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443401395

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Emperor Of The North by James Raffan Pdf

The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulded a man, a company and a country. The histories of Sir George Simpson and the HBC in the golden years of the 19th century are in many ways one history, for Simpson’s professional acumen and personal ambitions propelled a failing business to a position of great wealth and political power. At its height, the HBC trading territory covered an astonishing one-twelfth of the world’s surface. Raffan captures the many contradictions of the larger-than-life man at its centre: a brilliant manager who kept an iron grip on his fur forts from east to west, ensuring British power across the land; a pompous dandy who was most at home in a voyageur-paddled canoe; a man ashamed of his illegitimate birth but who went on to sire 13 children with eight different women, only one of whom was his wife; a master businessman who laid the foundations for the single greatest business enterprise of its day. Emperor of the North is the vibrant tale of a man who shaped much more than a fur-trading company—he launched an empire of ideas that led to the creation of a country. Meticulously researched, highly readable and wonderfully illuminated by maps and archival photographs, Emperor of the North is a delight for history buffs, armchair adventurers and biography fans alike.

Author : Helen M. Buss,Judith Hudson Beattie
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774841399

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Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57 by Helen M. Buss,Judith Hudson Beattie Pdf

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.

Author : Hudson's Bay Company
Publisher : London : [Hudson's bay Company]
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037103038

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Hudson's Bay Company by Hudson's Bay Company Pdf

Author : Richard I. Ruggles
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Mark Bourrie
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771962384

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Bush Runner by Mark Bourrie Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury Citation • "A remarkable biography of an even more remarkable 17th-century individual ... Beautifully written and endlessly thought-provoking."—Maclean’s Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as “an eager hustler with no known scruples.” Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to escape to New York City after less than a year. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to the Dutch and crossed the Atlantic to Holland—thus beginning a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions. A guest among First Nations communities, French fur traders, and royal courts; witness to London’s Great Plague and Great Fire; and unwitting agent of the Jesuits’ corporate espionage, Radisson double-crossed the English, French, Dutch, and his adoptive Mohawk family alike, found himself marooned by pirates in Spain, and lived through shipwreck on the reefs of Venezuela. His most lasting venture as an Artic fur trader led to the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which operates today, 350 years later, as North America’s oldest corporation. Sourced from Radisson’s journals, which are the best first-hand accounts of 17th century Canada, Bush Runner tells the extraordinary true story of this protean 17th-century figure, a man more trading partner than colonizer, a peddler of goods and not worldview—and with it offers a fresh perspective on the world in which he lived.

Author : Douglas MacKay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : OCLC:1152908636

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The Honourable Company by Douglas MacKay Pdf

Author : Samuel Hearne
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547576693

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A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean by Samuel Hearne Pdf

"A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean" by Samuel Hearne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : George Bryce
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1017474133

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The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company: Including That of the French Furtraders of North-Western Canada and of the North West, XY, and Ast by George Bryce Pdf

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Author : Deidre Simmons
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773560499

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Keepers of the Record by Deidre Simmons Pdf

"The Hudson's Bay Company Archives is one of the world's most complete archival collections and a national treasure. Protected in the vaults of the Archives of Manitoba, its documents trace the history of the fur trade, North American exploration, the growth of a retail empire, and the evolution of Canada as a country. Keepers of the Record offers the first comprehensive look at the development of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives over three centuries." "Deidre Simmons places the archives within the historical context of the Company, England, and Canada, as well as British and Canadian archival traditions. Keepers of the Record is illustrated with archival photographs that evoke the texture and slightly musty smell of soft leather and crisp vellum and the ghostly presence of the people who created the pristine script, writing by candlelight in unheated (or overheated, depending on the season) dwellings in the wilderness of the Hudson Bay or in the centre of London."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Edwin Ernest Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015073717426

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Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1870: 1821-1870 by Edwin Ernest Rich Pdf