Company, crown and colony
Subtitle: the Hudson's Bay Company and territorial endeavour in western Canada
By: Stephen Royle
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781848851320
Subjects: Administration; Colonies; Kolonie; Hudson's Bay Company; History
Description: "The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the great merchant companies. Granted sole trading rights to a huge part of what is now Canada, they were coerced in the mid-nineteenth century to set up a colonial administration on Vancouver Island to protect British interests at a time of growing expansionism from America to the south and possible threats from a Russian Alaska to the north. 'Company, Crown and Colony' tells the story of the challenges they faced. Drawing on rich archival resources the author provides a detailed account of this turbulent period, revealing the difficulties faced by a leading merchant company as they sought to resolve their conflicting interests of commerce and settlement in a complex situation, and providing fresh and lively insights into the emergence of a region of North America that is today one of the principal commercial centres of Canada."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-296) and index.