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The Canadian fur trade in the industrial age /

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 othertrading companies such...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ray, Arthur J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1990.
Subjects:
Hudson's Bay Company > History.
Fur trade > Canada > History.
Indians of North America > Canada > Economic conditions.
Fur trade > Canada, Northern > History.
Grouard, Alberta.
Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson > Histoire.
Fourrures > Commerce > Canada (Nord) > Histoire.
Fourrures > Commerce > Canada > Histoire.
Indiens d'Amérique > Canada > Conditions économiques.
Hudson's Bay Company.
Fur trade.
Indians of North America > Economic conditions.
Northern Canada.
Canada.
Hudson's Bay Company
Kanada
Geschichte
Indianer
Pelzhandel
Arktis
Bonthandel.
Iwi taketake.
Geschichte (1870-1945)
Geschichte (1850-1945)
Indianer.
Fur trade > Canada > History
Hudson's Bay Company > History
Indians of North America > Canada > Economic conditions
History.
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Table of 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.