The North West CompanyDouglas & McIntyre, 1983 - 295 páginas |
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... natives , he pushed on , only to be threatened by three dug - out canoes of hostile natives , who closed in on his single craft , brandishing their spears . It seemed as though they must all be murdered within sight of their long ...
... natives , he pushed on , only to be threatened by three dug - out canoes of hostile natives , who closed in on his single craft , brandishing their spears . It seemed as though they must all be murdered within sight of their long ...
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... natives as bait . Now the fur - traders borrowed yet another native custom , with such success that the use of castoreum as bait became common practice . This substance secreted in the groin of the beaver , when smeared on even a ...
... natives as bait . Now the fur - traders borrowed yet another native custom , with such success that the use of castoreum as bait became common practice . This substance secreted in the groin of the beaver , when smeared on even a ...
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... natives , fol- lowing aboriginal waterways and paths through the Pacific slope forests of ever larger trees and denser undergrowth . From the first he found the natives less dependent on white men , and therefore less willing to provide ...
... natives , fol- lowing aboriginal waterways and paths through the Pacific slope forests of ever larger trees and denser undergrowth . From the first he found the natives less dependent on white men , and therefore less willing to provide ...
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CHAPTER | 15 |
McTavish Frobisher and Company | 54 |
McTavish McGillivrays and Company | 149 |
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agents agreement Alexander Henry already American arrived Astor Beaver Club bourgeois brigade British Canada Canadian canoes carried charge Chipewyan clerks colony Columbia River company's concern cousin David Thompson depot Duncan McGillivray east England English explorer Fort Chipewyan Fort Gibraltar Fort Kaministiquia Fort William Fraser French fur trade fur-trade Gibraltar governor Grand Portage Grant Height of Land Highland House Hudson's Bay Company Indian inland interior John George McTavish Joseph Frobisher Kaministiquia Lachine Lake Athabasca Lake Superior Lake Winnipeg letter London Lord Selkirk Mackenzie's McLeod meeting Métis Michilimackinac Montreal mountains natives Nor'Westers North West Company Pacific paddled Pangman pelts pemmican Pond's provisions Quebec reached Red River Rockies Roderick McKenzie route Saskatchewan sent servants shares Shaw ship Simon McGillivray Simon McTavish Simpson Sir Alexander Mackenzie soon spring summer supply territory trip voyageurs Wedderburn William McGillivray wrote York young