For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the...
Fur trade
- Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:
- Author:Gallaher, BillSummary:
In the spring of 1884, Jack, an adventurous young man, packs his bags in Victoria, BC, and heads for the prairies, looking for a new life and hoping to get involved in an Indian war. Instead, he lucks into an exciting job in the fur...
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Escaping his life in 1820s Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier.
- Author:Ternier Gordon, IreneSummary:
The years from the fall of New France in 1763 to the amalgamation of the Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Company in 1821 were marked by fierce competition in the fur trade. Traders from the warring companies pushed west, undertaking...
- Author:Backhouse, FrancesSummary:
Discover deeper truths and quirky facts that cast new light on this keystone species
Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating...
- Author:Lytwyn, Victor P.Summary:
The original people of the Hudson Bay lowlands, often known as the Lowland Cree and known to themselves as Muskekowuck Athinuwick, were among the first Aboriginal peoples in northwestern North America to come into contact with Europeans...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She settled into the life and learned Cree and...
- Author:Andra-Warner, ElleSummary:
The early history of the Hudson’s Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers...
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Sam Morgan is mourning the loss of his wife Meadowlark and determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But his journey is fraught with danger as Mexican authorities, Mojave Indians, and a host of other obstacles stand in his way.
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Blevins offers a tribute to the "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West. Stories include those of John Colter, who escaped captivity by the Blackfeet Indians, and Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear...
- Author:Flett, LeonardSummary:
This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett's eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather...
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Sam Morgan and his wife Meadowlark accompany legendary mountain man Jedediah Smith on an expedition into Mexican California territory. But while filled with adventure, their trek is also marked by hardships and tragedy.
- Author:Newman, Peter C.Summary:
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history...
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo. In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading...
- Author:Waiser, BillSummary:
Sometime during the summer of 1690, in east-central Saskatchewan, Englishmen Henry Kelsey and his Indian escorts walked out of the boreal forest and into a new world -- the northern great plains of western Canada. It was a landscape...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
In mid-July 1925, the SS Bayeskimo ran into heavy drift ice at the entrance to Hudson Strait. The ice carried her north, squeezing the steamer and testing the strength of her rivets. Helpless until the tide changed and the ice moved,...
- Author:Lahey, D. T.Summary:
Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792-1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert's Land and the Indian territories, an area encompassing all of Canada from Hudson...