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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

From the Barren Lands

Fur Trade, First Nations and a Life in Northern Canada

by (author) Leonard Flett

Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Initial publish date
Dec 2015
Category
Personal Memoirs
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781927855379
    Publish Date
    Dec 2015
    List Price
    $9.99

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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.The lives of indigenous people in remote areas of northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the 1960s and 1970s are examined in detail. Flett's successful career with both the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company provides an insight into the dying days of the fur trade and the rise of a new retail business tailored to First Nations.

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