An Adventurer from Hudson Bay: Journal of Matthew Cocking, from York Factory to the Blackfeet Country, 1772-73.
Communicated by Wilfred Campbell and read May 26th, 1908.
Communicated by Wilfred Campbell and read May 26th, 1908.
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Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.An Indian Agent's notebook from the [Duck Lake Agency]. Note subjects include grocery lists and prices, wartime pricing figures, travel details, medical admissions, legal matters, animal head counts and housing construction.
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Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.
Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 8 (p. [301]-516).
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See also S-B6550.This history deals primarily with the fur trade and the numerous posts in the "Nipawi", or Fort a la Corne and Nipawin areas along the Saskatchewan River from the 1750s to the 1790s. It contains historical and field research by Morton on the various French, Northwest Company, Independent, and Hudson's Bay Company posts found in this region of what is today Saskatchewan. Morton also discusses the war between the Cree and the original Atsina, or Gros Ventre, inhabitants of the area, as well as trade between First Nations and Europeans.
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Historical note:
Reverend Hunt oversaw the construction of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stanley Mission between 1854 and 1860, today the oldest standing building in the province. See also S-B6546.Contains chapters on the Red River Rebellion and the Red River Expedition.