Fur trade letters of Willie Traill, 1864-1894
By: William Edward Traill ; editor, K. Douglas Munro.
Contributors: Munro, K. Douglas, 1933-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Edmonton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780888644602
Subjects: Traill, Willie, -- 1844-1917 -- Correspondence; Trail family; Traill, Willie, -- 1844-1917 -- Correspondance; Traill (Famille); Hudson's Bay Company -- Biography; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson -- Histoire; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson -- Biographies; Fur trade -- Northwest, Canadian -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- Northwest, Canadian; Fur traders -- Northwest, Canadian -- Correspondence; Fourrures -- Commerce -- Canada (Ouest) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Vie des pionniers -- Canada (Ouest); Coureurs de bois -- Canada (Ouest) -- Correspondance; Northwest, Canadian -- Biography; Nord-Ouest canadien -- Histoire -- 1870-1905
Genres: Correspondence.; Correspondance.; Biography.
Description: "William Edward Traill, better known as Willie, was the son of Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada (1836), and nephew of Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush (1852), and he too was a natural writer." "Traill left Upper Canada to join the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become the Canadian West. For some thirty years, he worked his way up from clerk to Chief Trader. He also met and married Harriet McKay and together they had twelve children." "His letters home between 1864 and 1893 convey a rich and detailed portrait of domestic life in the service of the fur trade of the Northwest. At turns gritty, then deeply touching, the Willie Traill letters are a fascinating and unguarded portrait of the joys and heartbreaking challenges of raising a family in the fur trade."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-314) and index.