The North West CompanyPickle Partners Publishing, 3 de set. de 2018 - 244 páginas In 1779 a group of independent fur traders from Montreal banded together to form the North West Company; this was a trading expedient and no one could have foreseen its brilliant and far-reaching results. Before the North West Company name disappeared in a merger with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 it had spanned the continent, reached the Arctic, and traded round the Horn to China. Many of the great rivers and lakes of the North and West carry the names of the company’s servants as the only memorial so far accorded them: Pond, Frobisher, Mackenzie, Thompson and Fraser are merely the best remembered of perhaps the most remarkable group of associates that Canada has seen. “...accurate, magnificently organized, sparely written...one of the finest works of Canadian history I have ever read...These men have the most marvellous characters who ever founded and operated a business enterprise in North America.”—Hugh MacLennan, award-winning Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University |
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Era of Expansion 68 | |
Alexander Mackenzie Opposes 82 | |
PART TWO William McGillivray 98 | |
The Pacific Slope and the War | |
Red River Settlement 131 | |
The Ancient North West Sprit 144 | |
Not By Others Hands 166 | |
EPILOGUE Pro Pelle Cutem 181 | |
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