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- The bastard of Fort Stikine : the Hudson's Bay Company and the murder of John McLoughlin Jr. / by Komar, Debra,1965-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: McLoughlin, John, Jr., died 1842.; McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857.; Simpson, George, Sir, 1792?-1860.; Hudson's Bay Company; Hudson's Bay Company; Hudson's Bay Company; Murder;
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- Fur trade wars : the founding of Western Canada / by Bumsted, J. M.,1938-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company; North West Company; Fur trade;
- © c1999., Great Plains Publications,
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- The Company : the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire / by Bown, Stephen R.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."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 By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world.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."--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company; Fur trade;
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- Bush runner : the adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson / by Bourrie, Mark,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his life. He lived through fantastic advenures: capture and adoption by the Mohawks in 1652, escape to early New York City, trading partner with the indigenous people of the Great Lakes, defecting from the French and witnessing the Great Plague and Great Fire of London, defecting back to the French, co-founding the Hudson's Bay Company, running with pirates ... and so on. A fascinating and remarkable life story that is finally being told."- Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Biographies.; Radisson, Pierre Esprit, approximately 1636-1710.; Hudson's Bay Company.; Fur traders;
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- North West Company / by Nault, Jennifer;
Examines the history of the North West Company, a trading company founded in the late 1700s to compete with the Hudson's Bay Company.- Subjects: North West Company; Fur trade;
- © 2006., Weigl,
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- Trade routes / by Nault, Jennifer;
Examines the history of Canada's fur traders, their interaction with Aboriginal peoples, and the development of the Hudson's Bay Company.- Subjects: Fur trade; Fur traders;
- © 2006., Weigl,
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- Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada / by Bown, Stephen R.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."--- Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Railroads; Railroads;
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