The Journal Of Duncan M'Gillivray Of The North West Company At Fort George On The Saskatchewan, 1794-5

An edited edition of the daily journal kept by Duncan M’Gillivray while serving as head clerk at Fort George, a North West Company post on the North Saskatchewan River, during 1794–1795. Prepared by Arthur S. Morton from archival sources in Britain and Canada, the volume presents a firsthand record of routine operations at a fur trade post, including relations with Indigenous trading parties, systems of barter, alcohol distribution, internal discipline, violence, and the pressures of commercial rivalry. The text offers a continuous day-by-day account of post management, trade practices, and social conditions on the late eighteenth-century prairie.