Title: Company, crown and colony
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.
Subjects: Administration, Colonies, Kolonie, Hudson's Bay Company, History, Canada, history, History of the Americas
Places: British Columbia, Grossbritannien, Canadian Northwest, Great Britain, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island (B.C.)
People: James Douglas (1803-1877)
Time periods: To 1870, 19th century