Old Trails and New Directions
Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1980
- Category
- General, General, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487590697
- Publish Date
- Dec 1980
- List Price
- $38.95
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Description
Fur trade scholarship has changed considerably in recent years. The tempo of research has quickened and the field has become more multidisciplinary, bringing together scholars in archaeology, economics, ethnohistory, geography, history, and anthropology. The papers in this volume reflect recent developments in several specific areas of research: mapping, native cultures, social and labour history, personalities, the Pacific coast, and economics.
The moving of the Hudson's Bay Archives from London to Winnipeg in 1974 has patriated an incredibly rich source of information on many aspects of Canadian history, and the effects of this superb collection being available to Canadian scholars are just beginning to be felt. In this volume we can see that the history of the fur trade in Canada is not merely the story of the world's first great multi-national – the Hudson's Bay Company – but a study of a complex society during a period of more than two centuries. Languages, customs, transportation, personalities, marriage, and even sex are looked at in the wide-ranging papers in this book.
About the authors
Carol M. Judd has been an editor with the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and a historian with Parks Canada.
Arthur J. Ray is a professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, and author of Indians in the Fur Trade and I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People.
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Their Roles as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
The Fur Trade in Canada
An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
The Fur Trade in Canada
An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
Indians in the Fur Trade
Their Roles as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age
The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age
Give Us Good Measure
An economic analysis of relations between the Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company before 1763