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“jean morrison”

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  • Superior Rendezvous-Place

    Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade

    by Jean Morrison ...
    Jean Morrison has written a fascinating and important book, full of drama and colourful historical figures. Rare paintings, drawings, maps and archival photographs complement her impeccable research and lively text. Superior Rendezvous-Place encompasses the French predecessors of Fort William, Native Peoples of the time and the evolution of the fur trade, with an emphasis on the North West Company ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lake Superior to Rainy Lake

    Three Centuries of Fur Trade History, A Collection of Writings

    Edited by Jean Morrison ...
    The focus of Lake Superior to Rainy Lake is the fur trade along Northwestern Ontario's southern margins, the Voyageurs' Highway from Lake Superior to the Manitoba border. Spanning over three centuries - from the French era to the twenty-first century - the book covers such aspects of North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company history as fur trade rivalry and relationships, trade goods and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Northwest Company in Rebellion

    Simon McGillivray's Fort William Notebook, 1815

    Edited by Jean Morrison, Michel Beaulieu, Thorold Tronrud ...
    The North West Company in Rebellion is one of the few sources that provides an insider's view of the gathering of North West Company shareholders at the company's annual rendezvous at Fort William. First published in 1988, it remains widely referenced in academic and non-academic works exploring the North American fur trade, and it continues to be the most complete firsthand account of the events ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    by Rodger D. Touchie ...
    The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada-U.S. border, it was Potts who led them ... Read more

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  • The Company

    The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

    by Stephen Bown ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The North-West Is Our Mother

    The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

    by Jean Teillet ...
    There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lakota America

    A New History of Indigenous Power

    by Pekka Hv§mv§lv§inen ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history."Impressive. . . . Lakota America takes us from the sixteenth century to the present, with painstaking, carefully marshaled detail, but its real feat is in threading how the Lakota philosophy and vision of the world guided their reinventions and their dealings with colonial powers. . . . ... Read more

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  • Masters of Empire

    Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

    by Michael A. McDonnell ...
    "[A] magisterial tale of how the Anishinaabe Odawa lived through and shaped the history of North America and the early modern world." —Kathleen DuVal, professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIn Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known ... Read more

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  • David Thompson: A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    by Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. By 1812, he had surveyed almost four million square kilometres of the North American wilderness and become the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River. This compelling biography draws from Thompson's ... Read more

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  • Encounters at the Heart of the World

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    by Elizabeth A. Fenn ...
    This Pulitzer Prize–winning work pieces together the lost history of the Mandan Native Americans and their thriving society on the Upper Missouri River.The Mandan people's bustling towns in present-day North Dakota were at the center of the North American universe for centuries. Yet their history has been nearly forgotten, maintained in fragmentary documents and the journals of white visitors such ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Aboriginal Ontario

    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations

    Edited by Edward S. Rogers, Donald B. Smith ...
    Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of ... Read more

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