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Old Trails and New Directions

Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference

edited by Carol Judd & Arthur Ray

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1980
Category
General, General, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487590697
    Publish Date
    Dec 1980
    List Price
    $38.95

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Description

Fur trade scholarship has changed considerably in recent years. The tempo of research has quickened and the field has become more multidisciplinary, bringing together scholars in archaeology, economics, ethnohistory, geography, history, and anthropology. The papers in this volume reflect recent developments in several specific areas of research: mapping, native cultures, social and labour history, personalities, the Pacific coast, and economics.

 

The moving of the Hudson's Bay Archives from London to Winnipeg in 1974 has patriated an incredibly rich source of information on many aspects of Canadian history, and the effects of this superb collection being available to Canadian scholars are just beginning to be felt. In this volume we can see that the history of the fur trade in Canada is not merely the story of the world's first great multi-national – the Hudson's Bay Company – but a study of a complex society during a period of more than two centuries. Languages, customs, transportation, personalities, marriage, and even sex are looked at in the wide-ranging papers in this book.

About the authors

Carol M. Judd has been an editor with the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and a historian with Parks Canada.

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Arthur J. Ray is a professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, and author of Indians in the Fur Trade and I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People.

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