Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
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Author/Creator
Jay Nelson
Law and Society Series
Description
Considers several factors affecting intermarriage: geography, law, morality, race and sexuality.
Chapter 1 from Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law edited by John P. S. McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn.
Human Biology, vol. 70, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 91-115
Description
Looks at the basis of a mobility model for epidemic processes and applies it to the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic among the Cree and Métis people within certain Hudson's Bay Company posts.
Looks at the familial relationships which developed in the community of Île à la Crosse as well as those established with representatives of the fur trade and the Church.
Introduction and Chapter 1 of: One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan.
Photocopied page showing a sketch of Touchwood Hills Post in 1861, and a sketch of Fort Pelly from [1876]. Photocopied page from Canadian Geographic Journal, n.d.
The Journal of Economic History, vol. 61, no. 4, December 2001, pp. 1037-1064
Description
Argues that Indigenous peoples bought more European goods from the Hudson's Bay Company post as fur prices went up, and also increased trapping for trade purposes.
Report develops the perspective of Kehewin Cree Nation regarding the area within their traditional lands that is currently being taken up for the purpose of developing the ENG project.
Papers of Willie Traill. Includes accounts of bison hunting during the nineteenth century, observations on Dakota culture, and the fur trade. Much of the account seems to take place in Minnesota and North Dakota as well as Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Ethnohistory, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 597-624
Description
Looks at how trading, cohabitation, and war-making created culturally constructed inter-community identities between Chipewyan natives and their Inuit neighbors in the eighteenth century.
Manitoba Indian Brotherhood Centennial Commemorations Historical Pageant
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Indian Brotherhood
Description
Publication relating to pre-contact, colonization, treaties and modern-day eras of Aboriginal life in Manitoba. Includes detailed descriptions of the treaty signings of 1871.
[Canadian Magazine], vol. 13, [May-October] [1899], pp. 26-34
Description
Reprint of an article by Samuel Bray, surveyor, describing his experiences travelling in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the autumn of 1894. Included is an illustration of Cree writing.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 79-93
Description
Describes how two Inuit prisoners were bought from their Albany River captors by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1800's and used in posts around James Bay. (Abstract in French/English, article in French only)
This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to his bear hunting experiences with Robert Bear, an excellent hunter and a friend of Beatty's. Their hunting routes included Fairford House and Stoney Creek district. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'
Comments on a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor and map-maker who travelled 90,000 kilometres and mapped 4.9 million square kilometres of North America.
Duration: 58:14.
On information card: Vertical post of partition and east wall with floor joists on the north side of the partition. Logs from the roof are overlying the partition. Methy Portage, SK.
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Examines how, in spite of increasingly hostile Colonial, then Canadian government relations toward First Nations people, they still maintained a strong attachment to the monarchy.
Looks at the history of Thanadelthur, a young Dene women who is famous for her involvement in the early Canadian fur trade, linking together the Hudson's Bay Company and northern Dene peoples living west of Hudson's Bay.
This file consists of 7 items, including typed copies of articles with handwritten notes about Henry John Moberly. Item titles are: I. H.J. Moberly (2p); II. Fort Edmonton in the Fifties (6p); III. The Missing Blacksmith (2p); IV. Mixing It Up With Running Wolf (5p); V. Koominakoos (3p); VI. Dutch Henry (2p); VII. Copy of letter from Henry John Moberly to George Walton, June 10, 1929 (1p).
This file consists of 7 items, including a newspaper article and typed copies of stories told by or about William McKay. The file also contains second and third copies of some of these items.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 41, no. 1, Winter, 1988, pp. 1-17
Description
Examines the political and economic motives of both the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the Northwest Company (NWC), their role in the development of capitalism in North America, and how these factors affected their labour relations policies and practices.
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 1.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 434-460
Description
"This article traces the transformation of the Muskego Cree and the Métis peoples of the district from independent traders, hunters, and wage labourers to a colonized people with diminished economic opportunities."
Prairie Forum, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall, 1983, pp. 147-155
Description
Examines evidence, from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, on how the involvement in the fur trade altered the social and economic lives of the Western James Bay Cree.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph of Chief Factor at Fort Pitt in 1885; taken in a photo studio. Caption: "W.J. McLean, the HBC factor, realized that Pitt was indefensible and agreed to surrender voluntarily to Wandering Spirit."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
William James McLean (1841-1929) was in command of the Hudson's Bay Company trading posts at Fort Qu'Appelle, Ile a la Crosse and Fort Pitt.
This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to his patient pursuit of a silver fox, the origin of 'made beaver' currency, and Beatty's total fur hunt run for the winter. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'
Ethnohistory, vol. 63, no. 3, July 2016, pp. 519-540
Description
Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks between a coalition of Métis and North West Company forces and a party of Scottish settlers and Hudson's Bay Company personnel.