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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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Company of Adventurers: 2the Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
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Peter C Newman
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Caesars of the wilderness
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Merchant Princes
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Peter C. Newman
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hudson's Bay Trader
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Empire of the Bay: 2an Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company
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Dr. Peter Newman, John Geiger (Editor), John Gieger (Editor)
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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Empire of the Bay: The Company of Adventurers That Seized a Continent
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This sweeping volume of the Hudson's Bay Company--consisting of Peter C. Newman's "Company of Adventurers" and "Caesars of the Wilderness"--is also the subject of a PBS documentary, "Empire of the Bay", airing in August. It tells of an empire that covered one-twelfth of the Earth's surface and shaped the destiny of a continent.
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A Gentleman Adventurer: The Arctic Diaries of R.H.G. Bonnycastle
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The Hudson's Bay Company
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Richard. [from old catalog] Morenus
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Siskiyou Trail: The Hudson's Bay Company Route to California
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Voices from Hudson Bay: Cree Stories from York Factory
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Flora Beardy, Robert Coutts (Editor)
In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived and worked at the Hudson's Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of family, community, and daily life, define their past and provide insights into a way of life that has largely disappeared in northern ...
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Isobel Gunn : a novel
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Audrey Thomas
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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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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The Trade
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Give Us Good Measure: An Economic Analysis of Relations Between the Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company Before 1763
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Arthur J Ray
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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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