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Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843

By Richard Somerset MacKie

Book information

Publisher
UBC Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0774806133, 9780774806138
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
481 kB (492337 bytes)
Pages
368\0
Time added
2017-05-31 12:06:00
Business & Money;Accounting;Biography & History;Bu

Description

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the North West and Hudson’s Bay companies extended their operations to the Pacific Ocean, where, with the aid of Native traders, they branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Mackie shows how the well-capitalized Hudson’s Bay Company created a regional economy on the Pacific coast and documents how the Native people played a part in the emerging economy and how, in myriad ways, they paid for contact with British commerce.

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