Profit and Ambition
Subtitle: The North West Company and the Fur Trade, 1779-1821
Publisher: Canadian Museum of History
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780660199146
Subjects: Fur trade; Northwest, canadian, history
Description: Presents the history of the Canadian fur trade, a period of a little more than 40 years, when a group of Montréal traders pushed the limits of European exploration and commerce west from Lake Winnipeg to the Pacific Ocean and north to the Arctic.