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Fur Trade Posts of the Northwest Territories: 1870-1970

E-Books

Author/Creator

Peter J. Usher

The Fur Trade Today, 1935

Articles » General

Author/Creator

Richard H. G. Bonnycastle

Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 10, Series 3, 1953-1954, p. [?]

Former employee of Hudson's Bay Company presented the paper in 1935 describing conditions in trading and outposts of the North.

Fur Trader Game

Documents & Presentations

Author/Creator

Elizabeth Phipps

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.

Fur Traders in Conversation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Laura J. Murray

Ethnohistory, vol. 50, no. 2, Spring, 2003, pp. 285-314

Discusses the customs of talking, silences and etiquette especially from records of Daniel Harmon, a Northwest Company (NWC) trader from 1800-1819.

Fur Trading Posts in Saskatchewan - [194-?].

Documents & Presentations

Document listing books with illustrations and diagrams of Saskatchewan fur trading posts. Forts include Pelly and Touchwood Hills, Fort Qu'Appelle, Fort Ellice, For Walsh and Fort Carlton.

A fur trapper with his catch. near Fort Resolution, NWT.

Images » Photographs

Author/Creator

Emrys Jones

A fur trapper posing with numerous pelts in right hand, with gun in left. Pelts hanging from pile of logs; winter scene.

Furs Along the Yukon: Hudson's Bay Company — Native Trade in the Yukon River Basin, 1830-1893

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

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.

The Future of Alaska. Economic Consequences of Statehood

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

J. R. Lotz

Arctic, vol. 16, no. 4, December 1963, pp. 279-282

Book review of: The Future of Alaska by George W. Rogers.

The Future of the Red Man

Articles » General

Author/Creator

Simon Pokagon

[Forum], no. [23], August 1897, pp. 698-708

Chief Simon Pokagon discusses the colonization of North America and the ensuing wars.

Gardens of Rongo: Applying Cross-Field Anthropology to Explain Contact Violence in New Zealand

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Ian Barber

Current Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 6, December 2012, pp. 799-808

Re-examines the violent first contact encounters between Indigenous people and Europeans.

Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Scott P. Stephen

BC Studies, no. 180, Winter, 2013/14, pp. 174-175

Book review of Gathering Places edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.

Gender Relations and Socio-Economic Change in Russian America: An Archaeological Study of the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska, 1741-1867 A.D.

Theses

Author/Creator

Katherine Elizabeth Woodhouse-Beyer

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2001.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery and Commerce, by Sea and Land, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time [Vol.1 - 18]

E-Books

Author/Creator

Robert Kerr

General Works on the American Indian: A Descriptive Bibliography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Thomas Torrans

Arizona and the West, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 1960, pp. 79-103

Forty-five selected works containing materials pertinent to the Indians of the American West.

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their First Beginning. an⁰: 1584. to this Present 1624. With the Procedings of those Severall Colonies and the Accidents that Befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes.

E-Books

Author/Creator

John Smith

The Genesis of A Journey to the Northern Ocean: A Dissertation Concerning the Transactions and Occurrences Related to Samuel Hearne's Coppermine River Narrative, Including Information on His Letters, Journals, Draft Manuscripts, and Published Work

Theses

Author/Creator

Heather Ann Rollason Driscoll

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2002.

The Genesis of a Trading Post Band: The Pembina Chippewa

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Harold Hickerson

Ethnohistory, vol. 3, no. 4, fall, 1956, pp. 289-345

Tracks the history of Ojibwa "trading post bands," their migrations, and territorial expansion.

A Genocidal Legacy: A Case Study of Cultural Survival in Northwestern California

Theses

Author/Creator

Aimee L. VanHavermaat-Snyder

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Chico, 2017.

Genocide and the Indians of California, 1769-1873

Theses

Author/Creator

Margaret A. Field

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts, 1993.

George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay: Retelling a Convict's Travel Narrative of the 1790s

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Alan Atkinson

Aboriginal History , vol. 27, 2003, pp. 275-276

Book review of: George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay edited by Suzanne Rickard. Review located by scrolling to page 275.

George Flett, Native Presbyterian Missionary: "Old Philosopher"/"Rev'd Gentleman"

Theses

Author/Creator

Alvina Block

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg, 1998.

George Spence: Surgeon and Servant of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1738-41

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Cynthia Toman

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 17-42

Examines daily medicine practice in the fur trade.

German Silver Crosses in Lakota Attire: Personal Adornment or Symbols of Tribal Leadership?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Ephriam D. Dickson

Whispering Wind, vol. 35, no. 2, March-April 2005, pp. 19-25

Examines how metal crosses where made and used by the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa and Lakota tribes.

Getting the Indians Out of Town: Race and Space in Victoria's History

Alternate Title

City TalksLecture

Media » Film and Video

Author/Creator

John Lutz

Scholar, teacher and historian looks at the mystery of the vanishing Aboriginals and how colonialism affected Indigenous space in urbanizing Victoria. Duration: 1:17:58

Getting to the Table: Making the Decision to Negotiate Comprehensive Land Claims in British Columbia

Theses

Author/Creator

Patty Thomas

School of Community and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1994.

Ghosts and Their Analysts: Writing and Reading Toward Something Like Justice for Murdered or Missing Indigenous Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Kara Granzow

Amber Dean

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, vol. 16, no. 1, Special Issue: Reiterating the Canadian West, February 2016, pp. 83-94

Looks at Katherine Govier's book Between Men and the protagonist Suzanne Vail.

Ghosts of the North West Coast

Web Sites » Organizations

Author/Creator

BC Heritage Websites Program

Examines the history of B.C. using graphics, text and music. Website covers exploration, transportation, fur trade, colonization, indigenous contact and religion. Site also includes suggestions for educational activities and links to related sites.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego

Articles » General

Author/Creator

Frederick A. Cook

The Century, vol. 59, no. 5, March 1900, pp. 721-729

Discusses information gathered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition on the Ona, the Yahgans and the Aliculufs, three distinct races of Fuegians.

Gifts as Treaties: The Political Use of Received Gifts in Anishinaabeg Communities, 1820-1832

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Cary Miller

American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 221-245

Describes understandings of how gift giving was interpreted diplomatically, socially and economically by both Native Americans and Europeans.

Gillette Chipps Interview #2

Alternate Title

Indian History Film Project

Oral History » Oral Histories

Author/Creator

Gillette Chipps

Don Prescott

Indian History Film Project

Consists of an interview where he discusses his life as a fisherman. He recounts the story of the first encounter between the Nootka Indians and Captain Cook.

"Give Us a Little Milk": Economics and Ceremony in the Ojibway Fur Trade

Theses

Author/Creator

Bruce M. White

History Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1985.

Giving Up "Indians"

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

David Medei

CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter, 2004, pp. 271-288

Book review of: Indian Giving: Economies of Power in Indian-White Exchanges by David Murray.

Glass Trade Beads From Reese Bay, Unalaska Island: Spatial and Temporal Patterns

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Barbara E. Bundy

Allen P. McCartney

Douglas W. Veltre

Arctic Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2003, pp. 29-70

Examines early Russian contact period through the recovery of glass beads from the Reese Bay archaeological site.

A Glimmer of Hope: A Review of Recent Works on the Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Settler Society

Book Reviews

Author/Creator

Keith Smith

Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 219-229

Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller. Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.

Glimpses of the Past in the Red River Settlement, from Letters of Mr. John Pritchard, 1805-1836

E-Books

Author/Creator

John Pritchard

Globalization and Development in a Post-Nomadic Hunter-Gather Village: The Case of Arctic Village, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Steven C. Dinero

Northern Review, no. 25/26, Summer, 2005, pp. 135-160

Discusses how the settlement (pop. 125) has sought to introduce community planning in an effort to transform itself into a more "developed" western-style town.

Glossary of the Fur Trade

Web Sites » Organizations

Author/Creator

Fort William Historical Park

Teacher resource.

Go up and Possess the Garden of the World: The Ontario Baptist Mission to the North West Territories, 1869-1870

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

James Tyler Robertson

McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry, vol. 10, 2008-2009, pp. 140-173

Looks at the men sent to spread the word west, Rev. Dr. Thomas Davidson and Rev. Thomas Baldwin.

God, Grace, and Government: Taylor and Mary Ealy in the American Southwest, 1874-1881

Theses

Author/Creator

Ellen Marie Cain

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2001.

Going Public: A History of Public Programming at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives

Theses

Author/Creator

Allison A. P. Gregor

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2001.

Gold on Haida Gwaii: The First Prospects, 1849-53

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed

Author/Creator

Robert Galois

BC Studies, no. 196, Perspectives on the Gold Rush, Winter, 2017/2018, pp. 15-42

Looks at the role played by the First Nation in the discovery of gold and their interactions with those who came to exploit the resource.

Goodbye, Columbus: Take Two

Alternate Title

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children

E-Books » Chapters

Author/Creator

Jean Paine Mendoza

Compares the treatment of the "discovery" of North America in two children's books: Encounter by Jane Yolen and A Coyote Columbus Story by Thomas King.

Excerpt from A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.