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Author
Series
American exploration and travel volume 20
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Author
Series
Great western volume no. 10
Publisher
Potomac Corral, The Westerners
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of...
Author
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th century--separated from his family, community, and language--finding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay. Between 1812 and 1834, his family sent him to Churchill, Manitoba, to live and work among strangers, where he could escape the harsh Arctic climate and earn a living in the burgeoning...