The Canadian fur trade in the industrial age
By: Arthur J. Ray.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company -- History; Fur trade -- Canada -- History; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Economic conditions
Description: This analysis of the fur trade carried on by the Hudson's Bay Company and its competitors in northern Canada from 1870 to 1945 includes material on its relations with Indians, the state of the fur market, activities of the Department of Indian Affairs, and details of othertrading companies such as Lamson and Hubbard, Northern Trading Company and Revillon Freres.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.