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Company of adventurers : how the Hudson's Bay empire determined the destiny of a continent / Peter C. Newman.
- Title
- Company of adventurers : how the Hudson's Bay empire determined the destiny of a continent / Peter C. Newman.
- Author
- Newman, Peter C. (Peter Charles), 1929-2023
- Publication
- Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F1060 .N486 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 966 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- History
- Canada > Histoire
- Canada > Découverte et exploration
- Fourrures > Commerce > Canada > Histoire
- Nord-Ouest canadien > Histoire
- Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson Histoire
- Canada > History
- Canada > Discovery and exploration
- Fur trade > Canada > History
- Northwest, Canadian > History
- Hudson's Bay Company History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I. Dreams of empire -- 1. The bay men -- 2. Beyond the westering sea -- 3. A bounty of beaver -- 4. Messrs radishes & gooseberries -- Pt. II. Assumption of empire -- 5. A princely undertaking -- 6. Battling for the bay -- 7. The century of the lakes -- Pt. III. Anchoring of empire -- 8. Asleep by the frozen sea -- 9. The salty Orcadians -- 10. A savage commerce -- Pt. IV. March of empire -- 11. Pathfinders -- 12. The Dobbs intervention -- 13. Samuel Hearne's Odyssey -- 14. The blood feud begins -- 15. March of empire -- Pt. V. Empire at risk -- 16. The Nor'Westers -- 17. The magnificent river rats -- 18. Big Mack -- 19. Storming of the west -- 20. Howling with the wolves -- 21. A fearful innocence -- 22. Showdown -- Pt. VI. Empire triumphant -- 23. A marriage of great convenience -- 24. The birchbark Napoleon -- 25. The Viceroy -- 26. Galahads of the Pacific -- 27. British Columbia's mulatto king -- VII. End of empire -- 28. Unravelling the fur monopoly -- 29. Death of a Titan -- 30. Surrender -- Pt. VIII. Labrador Smith -- 31. The man who became a country -- 32. Growing up cold -- 33. Bringing Louis Riel to heel -- 34. The great fire canoes -- 35. Progression and betrayal -- 36. Steal of empire -- 37. Canada in a shallow-trail coat -- 38. The reckoning -- Pt. IX. Quest for a new empire -- 39. On the trail of the arctic fox -- 40. Killing the competition -- 42. The Nascopie chronicles -- Pt. X. Merchant princes -- 43. The lords and the good old boys -- 44. Trans-Atlantic blood feud -- 45. Canadian at last -- 46. McGiverin's run -- Pt. XI. Farewell to glory -- 47. Young Ken -- 48. Disaster and deliverance -- 49. Last lord of the bay.
- ISBN
- 0143051474 (pbk.)
- 9780143051473 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 56682739
- SCSB-12344237
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library