Alexander Kennedy Isbister
A Respectable Critic of the Honourable Company
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1988
- Category
- General, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
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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.