Trader King : As Told To Mary Weekes

Weekes, Mary

Regina, 1949


$50.00 CAD
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Hardcover, 184 pages, 5.75x8 in, [14.5x20.5 cm], B&W photographs

Condition

Printed pages age-tanned. Fore-edge corners of covers bumped, and lightly worn.

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The life and career of William Cornwallis King, a native of the Isle of Man, who entered the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1845 and remained with the Company until 1902. Weekes documents King’s long and varied service across the Old North-West, detailing his many roles and the changing landscapes of the fur trade era. A firsthand account offering insight into the workings of the HBC and frontier life in 19th-century.