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Honourable Company
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The Fields of Eden
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In the mid 1840s, the trails from the Missouri frontier are clogged with pioneers searching for a new life in a remote land they call a "new Eden." This is the story of the emigrants who go up against the British Hudson's Bay Company to overcome their shattered dreams and make possible the settlement of Old Oregon.
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Merchant Princes
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This book draws the author's "Hudson's Bay" saga to its conclusion. Here, the great fur-trading enterprise expands from its original western Canadian base to "conquer" the Arctic, leaving its influence on Inuit culture and lifestyle. How different would Canada's northern territories be now, had there been no Hudson's Bay Company to transform them ...
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Isobel Gunn : a novel
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In 1806, a young Orkney woman, disguised as a man, signs on with The Company of Adventurers to work in Rupert's Land. She works "willingly and well" until she is discovered about to give birth. Based loosely on historical references, this novel is an evocative tale about an unusual woman.
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Company of Adventurers: 2the Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
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Peter C Newman
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Canadian wilds
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Empire of the Bay: 2an Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company
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A history of the world's most famous trading company based on Peter Newman's history. In 1838 Sir George Simpson, the governor of the HBC, was toasted at a dinner as the "Head of the most extended dominion in the known world - the Emperor of Russia, the Queen of England and the President of the United States excepted". It was an astonishing but ...
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Partners in Furs
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Daniel Francis
In this innovative study the authors investigate the effects of the fur trade on the social patterns of the Algonquian peoples living in the Eastern James Bay region from 1600 to 1870. Of central concern are the problem areas of winter hunting arrangements, land tenure system, and patterns of leadership; but historical setting, ecological factors, ...
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Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives
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Deidre Simmons
The Hudson's Bay Company Archives is one of the world's most complete archival collections and a Canadian national treasure. Protected in the vaults of the Archives of Manitoba, its documents trace the history of the fur trade, North American exploration, the growth of a retail empire, and the evolution of Canada as a country." Keepers of the ...
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Company of Adventurers
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Dr. Peter Newman
The story of dispossessed Scots and Englishmen living out their boldest fantasies and getting rich in the process. In the service of the Company of Adventurers of England they became proprietors of most of modern Canada and the Northwest United States - one-twelfth of the Earth's surface.
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The great fur opera; annals of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1970
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Kildare Dobbs, Ronald Searle
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Spirit of the Moon
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Earl Murray
Also known as Spirit of the Moon, young Elizabeth travels with her father and a company of Hudson's Bay tappers into the unknown country of the Coyotero and becomes the strength and hope of the entire expedition as it battles a murderous band of renegades and hostile Native Americans. Reprint.
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Caesars of the wilderness
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Peter C Newman
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Ranald MacDonald: Pacific Rim Adventurer
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Ranald MacDonald, a solitary venturer, entered secretive Japan in 1848, risking certain imprisonment, if not death, in the closed kingdom. Born at Astoria on the banks of the Columbia River, MacDonald (1824-94) was the son of a high-ranking Chinook woman and a Hudson's Bay Company official. He became fascinated with stories about the little-known ...
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The Company of Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company During 1867-1874
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Isaac Cowie, David Reed Miller (Introduction by)
The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York Factory, where he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured ...
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Caesars of the Wilderness: 2company of Adventurers, Volume 2
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Peter C Newman
This is the second volume in the history of the Hudson Bay Company, whose empire covered most of modern Canada and the Northwest United States. The proprietors were soldiers of fortune, mainly dispossessed Scots and Englishmen in the service of the Company of Adventurers of England, who became owners of one of history's most valuable and longest ...
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The Trade
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Hudson's Bay Trader
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The Hudson's Bay Company
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Richard. [from old catalog] Morenus
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A Gentleman Adventurer: The Arctic Diaries of R.H.G. Bonnycastle
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Siskiyou Trail: The Hudson's Bay Company Route to California
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The Hudson's Bay Company.
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Discusses the background, development, and contributions of the Hudson's Bay Company to the growth of the New World.
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From Barrow to Boothia
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William Barr (Editor), Peter Warren Dease
In 1835, the map of the Arctic coast of North America was still far from complete, with unmapped gaps of 280km from Return Reef to Point Barrow in Alaska and 550km from Point Turnagain to Boothia Peninsula in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Hudson's Bay Company developed a plan to fill the gaps and two of the Company's officers were chosen to ...
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John McLoughlin's Business Correspondence, 1847-48
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A history of the Canadian West to 1870-71; being a history of Rupert's land (The Hudson's bay company's territory) and of the North-west territory (including the Pacific slope)
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Arthur Silver Morton
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