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Adventurers and Authors: An Examination of Samuel de Champlain's and Capt. John Smith's Writings about the Aboriginal Peoples of North America
Adventurers in the New World: the Saga of the Coureurs de Bois
[The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure]
"At the Hearth of the Crossed Races": Intercultural Relations and Social Change in French Prairie, Oregon, 1812-1843
Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Battleford and Medicine Hat - Newspaper clipping - 9 May 1885.
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
The Beginning and the End: Lewis and Clark among the Upper Missouri River People
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
Book Reviews
Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions
Cahokia Mounds
The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Day of the Fur-Trade to the Era of the Railway and the Settler: With Incidents of Travel in the Region, and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Civilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the politics of Leisure in Colonial British Columbia, 1860-1871
Co-operative and State Ownership in Northern Saskatchewan Under the CCF Government
Crafting Europe’s “Clean Slate” Advantage: World-System Expansion and the Indigenous Mississippians of North America
Crossing the River: Attitudes of Invasion in the Revolutionary Ohio Country
Cultural Transvestites: Bi-cultural Mediators Along the North American Frontier
Disease, Empire, and (Alter)Native Medicine in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Winona LaDuke's Last Standing Woman
Documenting Historic Métis in Ontario
Fort Carlton, 1885
Friends, Foes, and Furs : George Nelson's Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804-1822
From Savagery to Civilization: The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Days ... and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
From the Fur Trade to Free Trade: Forestry and First Nations Women in Canada
Ft. Pontchartrain at Detroit: A Guide to the Daily Lives of Fur Trade and Military Personnel, Settlers, and Missionaries at French Posts. 2 vols
Fur Trade Daughters of the Oregon Country: Students of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1850
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History
Fur Trader Game
For use with the article The Business That Created a Country found on p. 6 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades1 to 5.
Giving Up "Indians"
Grand Portage National Monument: Historic Documents Study
Identifies and describes archival collections in North America that hold primary material relating to the site.
Han, People of the River: Hän hwëch'in: An Ethnography and Ethnohistory
Historical Atlas of the Arctic
History of the Ojibway Nation
Home, Away From Home: Old Swan, James Bird and the Edmonton District, 1795-1815
“The House in Buffalo Country”: Hudson House on the North Saskatchewan River, 1778-1787
[Hudson's Bay Company Archive Digitized Microfilm]
Contains links to over 10,000 volumes of the pre-1870 records from almost 500 Hudson's Bay Company posts, including post journals, incoming and outgoing correspondence and accounts, and records kept at districts and departments overseeing the post activity which include lists of servants, accounts, reports, engagement registers, abstracts of servants’ accounts and minutes of council.
In Quest of Fur: The Travel Journal of William O.K. Ross, 1909
In Search of the Never-Never: Mickey Dewar: Champion of History across Many Genres
Indians Want Their Side Told during Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy and Research on Métissage and Métis Origins on the Saskatchewan River: The Case of the Jerome Family
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Teacher's Kit for Giant Floor Map
Topics include climate change, demographics, Indigenous governance, housing, human rights, Indigenous languages, migration, famous people, original place names, residential schools, seasonal cycles, symbols, timeline, trade routes, and treaties, land disputes, agreements and rights.
Although activities were created for the giant floor map, they can be adapted to the printable tile version.
"Inspector Dickens Journal" Fort Pitt, 1885.
Historical note:
Interior of Fort Pitt, Just [Before] the Rebellion of 1885
Late Dorset Deposits at Iita: Site Formation and Site Destruction in Northwestern Greenland
Lesson Plan: Fur Trade Timeline
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"