North West Company

Examines the current scholarship of colonialism by looking at three aspects of Northwest coast history: geopolitical recording and transposition of information, the introduction and distribution of disease, and the profits of fur trade.

Summarizes the trading days along the Souris River and comments on the posts that operated for varying lengths of time above the mouth of the Souris.

Briefly describes a reproduction of a Montreal style canoe used by the North West Company.

Looks at the history and milestones of St. Peter's school in Hay River, NWT, which opened in 1894.

Describes events leading up to the Battle of Seven Oaks.

Considers several factors affecting intermarriage: geography, law, morality, race and sexuality. Chapter 1 from Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law edited by John P. S. McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn.

Looks at the familial relationships which developed in the community of Île à la Crosse as well as those established with representatives of the fur trade and the Church. Introduction and Chapter 1 of: One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan.

Concentrates on the complex relationship between fur traders and the Salish nations residing in the Columbia and Fraser River valleys.

Focuses on how Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) women who had intermarried with French traders contributed to the development and sustainability of the fur trade economy.

Report develops the perspective of Kehewin Cree Nation regarding the area within their traditional lands that is currently being taken up for the purpose of developing the ENG project.

Looks at the life of suppliers, the fur trappers, for the fur trade companies operating in Saskatchewan.

Comments on a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor and map-maker who travelled 90,000 kilometres and mapped 4.9 million square kilometres of North America. Duration: 58:14.

Examines the political and economic motives of both the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the Northwest Company (NWC), their role in the development of capitalism in North America, and how these factors affected their labour relations policies and practices. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 1.

Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks between a coalition of Métis and North West Company forces and a party of Scottish settlers and Hudson's Bay Company personnel.