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The 1857 Parliamentary Inquiry, the Hudson's Bay Company, and Rupert's Land's Aboriginal People
A. A. den Otter Prairie Forum, Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall, 1999, pp. 143-169. Discusses the results of an 1857 British parliamentary committee report, reviewing the monopolist activities of the Hudson's Bay Company, and the impact on the Aboriginal peoples of Rupert's Land. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aboriginal Labour in the North-West
Ron Bourgeault Prairie Forum, Vol. 31, No. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 273-304. Explores the historical background of the Aboriginal labour force prior to Saskatchewan forming a province in 1905. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aboriginal Rights Versus the Deed of Surrender: The Legal Rights of Native Peoples and Canada's Acquisition of the Hudson's Bay Company Territory
Frank J. Tough Prairie Forum, Vol. 17, No. 2, Native Studies, Fall, 1992, pp. 225-250. Outlines the transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada, and compares the Hudson Bay Company's claim versus the Aboriginal claim. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Advancement of Knowledge in La Pérouse's 1782 Expedition to Hudson Bay
Denis Combet, Constance Cartmill Manitoba History, No. 59, October 2008, pp. 25-33. Looks at the 1782 expedition of Count Jean François de la Pérouse, his leadership of the mission, encounters with Indigenous Peoples, and observations made by the crew. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Paul Hackett Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 78, No. 3, 2004, pp. 575-609. Argues that Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) served as a de facto public health agency and by the late 1830s provided an effective vaccination campaign covering most of western Canada. [Find offline items for Hackett, Paul] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Battle at Fort Edmonton: Fur Traders Under Siege
Hugh A. Dempsey Alberta History, Vol. 59, No. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 12-17. Looks at an 1826 battle between horse thieves and fur traders ending with six fewer horse thieves. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Case For Francis Noel Annance
Morag MacLachlan The Beaver, Vol. 73, No. 2, April/May 1993, pp. 35-?. Depicts the life of a servant in the Hudson Bay Company (b. 1789) compared to the stereotypes of mixed blood peoples depicted by Hollywood. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Chipewyan, Cree and Inuit Relations West of Hudson Bay, 1714-1955
James G. E. Smith Ethnohistory, Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring, 1981, pp. 133-156. Analyzes three phases of relations among groups using historical sources including documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Winnipeg. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Clyde Inuit Settlement and Community: From Before Boas to Centralization
George Wenzel Arctic Anthropology, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2008, pp. 1-21. Discusses the terms "settlement" and "community" and how they relate to contemporary Inuit residential places. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Colonial Office and the Prairies in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
David McNab Prairie Forum, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring, 1978, pp. 21-38. Examines the official attitudes and actions of the Colonial Office regarding native policy. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
'The Comforts of Married Life': Métis Family Life, Labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company
Brenda Macdougall Labour, Vol. 61, Spring, 2008, pp. 9-39. Examines the impact that familial relationships had on the evolution of both HBC and Métis communities. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Commerce de Fourrures et Competition a Betsiamites de 1850 a 1880
Jacques Frenette The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1987, pp. 41-56. (Abstract in French and English, article in French) Examines how the Montagnais benefitted from competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and independent fur traders in this region and the methods employed by the Company while trying to control the market. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Concept of the Good Indian: An Albany River 19th Century Managerial Perspective
Elizabeth Arthur The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1985, pp. 61-74. Studies fifty years (1821-1871) of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Albany District in present day Ontario. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Coping With Powerful People: A Hudson's Bay Company "Boss" and the Albany River Cree, 1862-1875
John S. Long Native Studies Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1992, pp. 1-21. Compares Cree Elder James Wesley's narrative account of Alexander Macdonald, HBC trader with documents from the Church Missionary Society and Hudson's Bay Company archive. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Discouraging the Use of a Common Resource: The Crees of Saskatchewan
Ann Harper-Fender Journal of Economic History, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 1981, pp. 163-170. Describes trade network of the Cree peoples with the Hudson's Bay Company, the supply of fur bearing animals, and how the Cree economy declined. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"Expectations of Grease & Provisions": The Circulation and Regulation of Fur Trade Foodstuffs
Leslie Ritchie Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 23, No. 2, May 1999, pp. 124-142. Discussion of class and race with regard to provision of foodstuffs in the North-West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism
W. J. Eccles William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3, July 1983, pp. 341-662. Discusses economics of the fur trade and missionary activity. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Furs Along the Yukon: Hudson's Bay Company — Native Trade in the Yukon River Basin, 1830-1893
Kenneth Coates BC Studies, No. 55, Autumn, 1982, pp. 50-78. Discusses the early economic structure of the area before the Klondike Gold Rush and the impact of Aboriginal-European contact. [Find offline items for Coates, Ken] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
George Spence: Surgeon and Servant of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1738-41
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2001, pp. 17-42. Examines daily medicine practice in the fur trade. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Home, Away From Home: Old Swan, James Bird and the Edmonton District, 1795-1815
Tolly Bradford Prairie Forum, Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 25-43. Examines how differently Old Swan, a Siksika, and James Bird, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, viewed the land in which they lived and worked. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Housing the Homeguard at Moose Factory: 1730-1982
Carol Judd The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1983, pp. 23-37. Traces the historical and social aspects of a housing site initially built by employees of the Hudson Bay Company post, which became a Metis settlement. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"I Came to Rite Thare Portraits": Paul Kane's Journal of His Western Travels, 1846-1848
I. S. MacLaren American Art Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1989, pp. 7-21. Discusses artists travels with the Hudson Bay Company passing through territories of nearly eighty Indian Tribes from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. He produced 500 sketches and eventually painting over 100 canvases. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
In Defense of Big Bear: The Role of Henry Ross Halpin
David R. Elliott Prairie Forum, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 27-43. Examines the relationship between Chief Big Bear and Henry Ross Halpin, a Hudson's Bay Company clerk during the 1885 Riel Resistance, and how Halpin came to Big Bear's defense after he was charged with treason. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay: The Economics of Depletion in the Lands of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1700-1763
Ann M. Carlos, Frank D. Lewis The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 53, No. 3, September 1993, pp. 465-494. Explains the supply of and demand for beaver furs during this time period. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Indigenous Historic Archaeology of the 19th-Century Secwepemc Village at Thompson's River Post, Kamloops, British Columbia
Catherine C. Carlson Canadian Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2006, pp. 193-250. Looks at how ideas influence interpretations about Indigenous peoples’ contacts with fur traders in the Canadian Plateau. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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