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Alexander Kennedy Isbister

A Respectable Critic of the Honourable Company

by (author) Barry Cooper

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
General, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773573529
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $100.00

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Born of mixed Scottish/Native Indian blood in what is now Saskatchewan, Isbister emigrated to Britain after he found his ambitions thwarted by Hudson's Bay Company policies regarding native-born employees. There he became a respected educator, but more important to this study, he also became the most persistent critic of the Company, and of British and Canadian policies dealing with the inhabitants of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories.

About the author

BARRY COOPER is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary and the author of more than twenty-five books, including Deconfederation: Canada without Quebec and The End of History. He has a regular column in the Calgary Herald and other newspapers; his journalism has appeared in The Globe and Mail and The National Post. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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