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Bown, Stephen R.
Subjects
Hudson's Bay Company -- History.
Fur trade -- Canada -- History.
Northwest, Canadian -- History -- To 1870.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
Canada -- History -- 1763-1867.
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Bown, Stephen R.
Hudson's Bay Company -- History.
Fur trade -- Canada -- History.
Northwest, Canadian -- History -- To 1870.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
Canada -- History -- 1763-1867.
MARC Display
The Company : the
rise
and
fall
of the
Hudson
's
Bay
Empire
/ Stephen R. Bown.
by
Bown, Stephen R.
Doubleday Canada, 2020.
Call #:
971.2 B787c
Subjects
Hudson
's
Bay
Company -- History.
Fur trade -- Canada -- History.
Northwest, Canadian -- History -- To 1870.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
Canada -- History -- 1763-1867.
ISBN:
9780385694070 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Rise
and
fall
of the
Hudson
's
Bay
Empire
Description:
486 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada'
s
origins. The story of the
Hudson
's
Bay
Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada'
s
creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown'
s
exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people from the lowlands south and west of
Hudson
Bay
, to the tundra, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the
Hudson
's
Bay
Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company'
s
history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel."-- From publisher.
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