Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840

Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780773576445
ISBN-13 : 0773576444
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Download or read book Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840 written by James Hargrave and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering clerk, and went on to survive the company's 1821 merger with the rival Hudson's Bay Company and subsequent downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur trade at York Factory on the desolate shores of Hudson Bay in the service of Governor George Simpson.


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