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Author : N. M. W. J. McKenzie
Publisher : Fort William, Ont. : Times-Journal Presses
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Hudson'S Bay Company
ISBN : YALE:39002006507553
Recollection of incidents and men who were part of the author's experience working for the Hudson's Bay Co. 1876-1920.
Author : Helen M. Buss,Judith Hudson Beattie
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774841399
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 : Stephen Bown
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385694094
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 : Scott P. Stephen
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781772124972
“[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 : Nmwj McKenzie
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0344669734
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Author : Elle Andra-Warner
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926613147
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 : George Bryce
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752393279
Reproduction of the original: The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company by George Bryce
Author : N. M. W. J. McKenzie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0331582104
Excerpt from The Men of the Hudson's Bay Company: May 2nd, 1670 May 2nd, 1920 A great deal - and rightly so - has been written about the Honorable Hudson's Bay Company, their Governors, Deputy Governors, and Committee, also of the Gentlemen Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; their Chief Factors, Factors and Commissioned Officers generally. But very few of the writers have given much attention to the actual labour ers, working men, voyageurs, half-breeds, and Indians of the service, who have made possible and practical the celebration of the 250th Anniversary in this year of Grace on May 2md, of the longest lived commercial company in history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Peter Charles Newman
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015002621325
This sweeping volume of the Hudson's Bay Company--consisting of Peter C. Newman's "Company of Adventurers" and "Caesars of the Wilderness"--is also the subject of a PBS documentary, "Empire of the Bay", airing in August. It tells of an empire that covered one-twelfth of the Earth's surface and shaped the destiny of a continent.
Author : Elizabeth Briggs,Anne Morton,Hudson's Bay Company. Archives
Publisher : Winnipeg, Man. : Westgarth
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021558841
The Hudson's Bay Company Archives is located at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
Author : Jennifer S. H. Brown
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806128135
For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert's Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson's Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomer's survival and success. With acquaintance and alliance came intermarriage, and the unions of European traders and Native women generated thousands of descendants. Jennifer Brown's Strangers in Blood is the first work to look systematically at these parents and their children. Brown focuses on Hudson's Bay Company officers and North West Company wintering partners and clerks-those whose relationships are best known from post journals, correspondence, accounts, and wills. The durability of such families varied greatly. Settlers, missionaries, European women, and sometimes the courts challenged fur trade marriages. Some officers' Scottish and Canadian relatives dismissed Native wives and "Indian" progeny as illegitimate. Traders who took these ties seriously were obliged to defend them, to leave wills recognizing their wives and children, and to secure their legal and social status-to prove that they were kin, not "strangers in blood." Brown illustrates that the lives and identities of these children were shaped by factors far more complex than "blood." Sons and daughters diverged along paths affected by gender. Some descendants became Métis and espoused Métis nationhood under Louis Riel. Others rejected or were never offered that course-they passed into white or Indian communities or, in some instances, identified themselves (without prejudice) as "half breeds." The fur trade did not coalesce into a single society. Rather, like Rupert's Land, it splintered, and the historical consequences have been with us ever since.
Author : Hudson's Bay Company
Publisher : London : [Hudson's bay Company]
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037103038
Author : Jean Barman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773557529
Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois – principally from what is now Kahnawà:ke – left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some Iroquois soon returned, while others were enticed ever further west by the rapidly expanding fur trade. Recounting stories of Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency, Iroquois in the West tracks four clusters of travellers across time, place, and generations: a band that settled in Montana, another ranging across the American West, others opting for British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, and a group in Alberta who were evicted when their longtime home became Jasper National Park. Reclaiming slivers of Iroquois knowledge, anecdotes, and memories from the shadows of the past, Jean Barman draws on sources that range from descendants' recollections to fur-trade and government records to travellers' accounts. What becomes clear is that, no matter the places or the circumstances, the Iroquois never abandoned their senses of self. Opening up new ways of thinking about Indigenous peoples through time, Iroquois in the West shares the fascinating adventures of a people who have waited over two hundred years to be heard.
Author : Sylvia Van Kirk
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806118474
Beginning with the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of the Canadian west. Although detailed accounts of the fur-trade era have appeared, until recently the rich social history has been ignored. In this book, the fur trade is examined not simply as an economic activity but as a social and cultural complex that was to survive for nearly two centuries. The author traces the development of a mutual dependency between Indian and European traders at the economic level that evolved into a significant cultural exchange as well. Marriages of fur traders to Indian women created bonds that helped advance trade relations. As a result of these "many tender ties," there emerged a unique society derived from both Indian and European culture.
Author : Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007285631
In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the ‘gentlemen adventurers’ – the fur traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In the Arctic he found adventure, love and loss as he came to grips with Eskimo life. Beautifully written, inspiring and funny, this is a boy’s own story that captures a world that is lost forever.