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Aboriginal Plant Collectors: Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century
The Advancement of Knowledge in La Pérouse's 1782 Expedition to Hudson Bay
All Saints School — Lac La Ronge, SK
Arctic Development and Historical Analysis: The Use of Historical Methodology in Addressing Current Issues in the Arctic
Authenticating Mäori Physicality: Translations of "Games' and 'Pastimes' by Early Travellers and Missionaries to New Zealand
Battleford and Medicine Hat - Newspaper clipping - 9 May 1885.
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
Beaver, Bison, and Black Robes: Montana's Fur Trade, 1800-1860
Discusses how the demand for beaver pelts brought about a new economy, the shift from hunting beaver to hunting bison, and the impact of missionaries.
Chapter from Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes..
[Bei Inuit und Walfängern auf Baffin-Land (1883/1884): Das Arktische Tagebuch des Wilhelm Weike
Benton and the People: White Nationalism on the Jacksonian Frontier, 1782-1848
Bering Sea and Arctic Coast Eskimos of Alaska
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
Caribou Inuit Traders of the Kivalliq
Chains of Consumption: The Iroquois and Consumer Goods, 1550-1800.
Challenging the New Canadian Myth: Colonialism, Post-colonialism, and Urban Aboriginal Policy in Thompson and Brandon, Manitoba
Civilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the politics of Leisure in Colonial British Columbia, 1860-1871
Clyde Inuit Settlement and Community: From Before Boas to Centralization
The Collaboration of James Mutch and Franz Boas, 1883-1922
'The Comforts of Married Life': Métis Family Life, Labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company
Coping With Starvation and Deprivation in Moose Factory, 1882-1902: Cree-HBC Interdependence as Revealed in the Moose Factory HBC Records
The Copper Eskimos
The Creative Misunderstandings of George Cartwright: A Popular Culture in Cartwright's Labrador, 1770-1786
The Ermatingers: A 19th-Century Ojibwa-Canadian Family
FbAx-01: A Daniel Rattle Hearth in Southern Labrador
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
Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill 1864-1894
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.
Go up and Possess the Garden of the World: The Ontario Baptist Mission to the North West Territories, 1869-1870
History of the Ojibway Nation
The History of the Staples Rug: A Remarkable, Oversized, Two-Faced Navajo Weaving
[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.
[Hudson's Bay Company] : Our History
History of the company, its employees and products over 300 years.
The Hudson's Bay Eskimos
The Huron-Wendat: Proud of Their Past, Focused on the Future
In Search of the Never-Never: Mickey Dewar: Champion of History across Many Genres
In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Womens' History in Canada
The Indigenous Foundation of the Resource Economy of BC's North Coast
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.
'Inhabited by a Race of Formidable Giants': French Explorers, Aborigines, and the Endurance of the Fantastic in the Great South Land, 1803
"Inspector Dickens Journal" Fort Pitt, 1885.
Historical note:
Interior of Fort Pitt, Just [Before] the Rebellion of 1885
Inuit Contact and Colonization: Takurngaqtaq
Inuit Settlement in the Clyde Area During "Contact-Exploration" Times (ca.1820-1895)
Iroquois of the Pacific Northwest Fur Trade: Their Archaeology and History
James McKay (1828-1879): Métis Trader, Guide, Interpreter and MLA
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?"