The Canadian fur trade in the industrial age
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0802026990
ISBN 13
9780802026996
LCCN
HD9944.C22
DDC
380.1
Category
Canadian Legal History
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Publication Year
1990
Publisher
Pages
283
Abstract
"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 other trading companies such as Lamson and Hubbard, Northern Trading Company and Revillon Freres." - Voila
Description
Contents:
Does the fur trade have a future? -- Laying the groundwork for government involvement, 1870-1885 -- The fur trade in transition -- The turning point : the impact of the First World War on the northern fur trade -- The international marketing of Canadian furs, 1920-1945 -- The struggle for dominance in the Canadian north during the 1920s -- Attempts to revitalize the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trade Department, 1920-1945 -- The native people, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the state in the industrial fur trade, 1920-1945 -- The decline of the old order.
Does the fur trade have a future? -- Laying the groundwork for government involvement, 1870-1885 -- The fur trade in transition -- The turning point : the impact of the First World War on the northern fur trade -- The international marketing of Canadian furs, 1920-1945 -- The struggle for dominance in the Canadian north during the 1920s -- Attempts to revitalize the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trade Department, 1920-1945 -- The native people, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the state in the industrial fur trade, 1920-1945 -- The decline of the old order.
Number of Copies
1
