The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age / / Arthur Ray.
Throughout much of the nineteenth century the Hudson's Bay Company had a virtual monopoly on the core area of the fur trade in Canada. Its products were the object of intense competition among merchants on two continents - in Leipzig, New York, London, Winnipeg, St Louis, and Montreal. But in 1...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- FIGURES AND TABLES
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Does the fur trade have a future?
- 2. Laying the groundwork for government involvement, 1870-1885
- 3. The fur trade in transition, 1886-1913
- 4. The turning point: the impact of the First World War on the northern fur trade
- 5. The international marketing of Canadian furs, 1920-1945
- 6. The struggle for dominance in the Canadian north during the 1920s
- 7. Attempts to revitalize the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trade Department, 1920-1945
- 8. The native people, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the state in the industrial fur trade, 1920-1945
- 9. The decline of the old order
- NOTES
- APPENDIX Figure references and data notes
- Picture credits
- Bibliography
- Index