Fur Trade & Exploration

Book review of: 'As Their Natural Resources Fail': Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930 by Frank Tough.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1999.

Book review of Empires, Nations, and Families by Anne F. Hyde. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 226.

Examines, the rarely studied aspect regarding, the first point of contact and how Aboriginal people viewed Columbus.

Examines historical texts for cross cultural encounters with the intersection of native knowledge systems.

Book review of: Encounters on the Passage by Dorothy Harley Eber.

Book review of Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers by Dorothy Harley Eber.

Discusses transaction records between the French and peoples of the Western Great Lake including Ojibwa and Dakota regard for French technology.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1994.

3rd Edition.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1998.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Orleans, 2018.

Presents comments from two Spanish officers on the state of relations between the Aboriginal people and the English settlers including excerpts from their reports and documents.

Book review of: Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West by D'Arcy Jenish.

Contends that the destruction or dispersal of many tribes during the seventeenth century did not result from the fur trade but rather from smallpox and other forces.

Book review of: The Ermatingers by Brian W. Stewart. Scroll to page 217 to read review.

Comments on the three phases of Eskimo history: the aboriginal phase, the contact-traditional, and the centralized phase.

Looks at the history, economics and the quality of soapstone carving.

Book review of: Eskimos and Explorers by Wendell H. Oswalt.

Book review of: Eskimos in Europe by Rene Bonnerjea.

Comments on the changes due to the influence of the Europeans, Americans, and Canadians.

Book review of: Eskimos of Northwest Alaska in the Early Nineteenth Century, Based on the Beechey and Belcher Collections and Records Compiled During the Voyages of H.M.S. Blossom to Northwest Alaska in 1826 and 1827 by John R. Bockstoce.

Book review of: An Ethic of Mutual Respect by Bruce Morito.

Looks at several accounts of the first British settlement in Australia.

An examination of cross cultural relations prior to the mid-seventeenth century and an analysis of some of the previous scholarly work about that era.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1987.

Humanities: History Option Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 2000.

Discusses 17th century fur trade and the disappearance of beaver and other fur bearing animals.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

Examines the importance of the tobacco trade in both social and ceremonial contexts.

Comments on the official Anzac Day services and memorials as well as private practices.

Article outlines examples of discrimination endured by the Forest People of Central Africa through examples and the work of James Woodburn. To access this article scroll down to page 62.

An archaeologist excavating post walls from the Francois-Finlay post (by the present Francois-Finlay Dam) near Nipawin, Saskatchewan in 1964.

Historical note:

The post was built in 1763 the first "pedlar" post on the Saskatchewan River was a combined effort of François Le Blanc, a veteran of the La Vérendrye family's 1740's expeditions, and James Finlay, a Scottish-born businessman. The site is now underwater due to the nearby dam project.

Photograph of excavations at the Francois-Finlay Post site near Nipawin, Saskatchewan in 1964.

Historical note:

The Francois-Finlay Post was the first "pedlar" post on the Saskatchewan River was a combined effort of François Le Blanc, a veteran of the La Vérendrye family's 1740's expeditions, and James Finlay, a Scottish-born businessman. The site is currently under Tobin Lake, which was created by the construction of the Francois-Finlay dam.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.

Paper looks at economic exchange among Aboriginals prior and post to European contact.

Examines the processes involved in the transfer of goods, what goods are exchanged and under what circumstances.

Discussion of class and race with regard to provision of foodstuffs in the North-West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company.

Expedition members on [Mount] Wrangell. Back row: Maurer & Knight; front row: Crawford, Ada Blackjack & Galle (1922). Alaska, U.S.A.

This article describes James Clinkskill's arrival, with a business partner, in Battleford in the early 1880s . Also lists prices for furs of fox, lynx and other animals. Also contains mention of the Northwest Resistance, 'halfbreed freighters', trading with trappers and traders for furs and with Indians for seneca root, and providing flour for the Indian Department.

Book review of Exploration History and Place Names of Northern East Greenland by Anthony K. Higgins.

Lecturer discusses early collectors and the objects they acquired, and his personal experiences with the region's culture. Duration: 47:35.

History of the fur trade and Hudson's Bay Company to the present. Includes links to personalities, timeline, maps, and teachers' resources.