The fur trade in Canada
Subtitle: an introduction to Canadian economic history
By: Harold A. Innis ; with a new introductory essay by Arthur J. Ray.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Fur trade -- Canada -- History.; Canada -- Economic conditions.; Northwest, Canadian -- History.; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
Description: "Innis has long been regarded as one of Canada's foremost historians, and in The Fur Trade in Canada he presents several histories in one: social history through the clash between colonial and aboriginal cultures; economic history in the development of the West as a result of Eastern colonial and European needs; and transportation history in the case of the displacement of the canoe by the York boat.

Political history appears in Innis's examination of the nature of French-British rivalry and the American Revolution; and business history is represented in his detailed account of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest Companies and the industry that played so vital a role in the expansion of Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-441) and index.