The Hudson's Bay boy : from Cabbagetown to Rupert's Land
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1894856449
ISBN 13
9781894856447
Category
Fur Trade and Policing
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
xi, 212 pages
Abstract
"John Seagrave was born in Toronto, Ontario, but from an early age felt like a cultural orphan in his own community. To escape the inevitable factory job he joined the ©Gentleman Adventurers♯ of the Hudson℗s Bay Company as a modern-day fur trader. It was the 1970s and, like many other Bay Boys, he was transferred from pillar to post (ultimately 17 outposts) in northern Ontario and Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. Seagrave felt kinship to, and learned from, both Natives and Inuit, spending twenty years working hard as an HBC factor and experiencing many adventures along the way."--pub. website.
Number of Copies
1
