The Fur Trade And The Northwest To 1857

The author presents a broad history of the western interior of Canada, focusing on how fur traders explored, mapped, and shaped the region long before formal settlement. Rather than a corporate chronicle of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the book examines the development of the Northwest itself—its travel routes, trading systems, and cultural encounters—and the traders’ role in opening the territory up to wider knowledge. Issued as part of the Canadian Centenary Series published for Canada’s Centennial, the volume offers an account of the early expansion into the Northwest up to the mid-nineteenth century.