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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"North West Company"”.
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The History and Archaeology of a North West Company Trading Post and a Hudson's Bay Company Transport Depot, Lac La Loche, Saskatchewan
… sites in the Methye Portage-Lac La Loche area of north-central Saskatchewan are presented. The sites are a late 18th-century North West Company trading post, and a late 19th-century Hudson's Bay Company transport depot. A descriptive account of the structural remains from both sites is presented. …
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To the Ends of the Earth: A Study of the Explorative Discourse Promoting British Expansionism in Canada
… systematically filled in the map of British North America. Many of those explorers worked for two fur-trading companies: the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. In pursuit of new sources of fur, they opened western Canada to European comprehension. Their published accounts of …
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The Hudson’s Bay Company on the Pacific, 1821-1843
… begins in 1821, when the Hudson's Bay Company took over the Columbia Department from the North West Company, which since 1813 had exported a single commodity (peltries) from the watersheds of two great rivers (the upper Fraser and lower Columbia) to two markets (London and Canton). This …
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Inventing "crime" in a lawless land: legal conflict, racial formation, and conquest in the North American interior
… indigenous peoples of the continental interior north and west of Lake Superior. It examines the period between the fall of New France in 1763 and the invasion of the Canadian and American settler states in this area around 1850. It argues that British and American administrators transformed the …