Old Trails and New Directions : : Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference / / ed. by Carol Judd, Arthur Ray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bishop, Charles A.,; Brown, Jennifer S.H.,; Cullen, Mary,; Gibson, James R.,; Jaenen, Cornelius,; Johnson, Stephen M.,; Judd, Carol M.,; Lewis, G. Malcolm,; Martin, Calvin,; Moodie, D.W.,; Morantz, Toby,; Nicks, John,; Nicks, Trudy,; Ray, Arthur J.,; Ruggles, Richard I.,; Russell, Hilary,; Spry, Irene M.,; Van Kirk, Sylvia,; Williams, Glyndwr,
• HerausgeberIn: Judd, Carol,; Ray, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Fur trade scholarship has changed considerably in recent years. The tempo of research has quickened and the field has become more multidisciplinary, bringing together scholars in archaeology, economics, ethnohistory, geography, history, and anthropology. The papers in this volume reflect recent developments in several specific areas of research: mapping, native cultures, social and labour history, personalities, the Pacific coast, and economics. The moving of the Hudson's Bay Archives from London to Winnipeg in 1974 has patriated an incredibly rich source of information on many aspects of Canadian history, and the effects of this superb collection being available to Canadian scholars are just beginning to be felt. In this volume we can see that the history of the fur trade in Canada is not merely the story of the world's first great multi-national – the Hudson's Bay Company – but a study of a complex society during a period of more than two centuries. Languages, customs, transportation, personalities, marriage, and even sex are looked at in the wide-ranging papers in this book.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- OLD TRAILS AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- Introduction -- PART I MAPS -- Indian Maps -- Hudson's Bay Company Mapping -- PART II NATIVE SOCIETIES -- The Fur Trade and the Cree of James Bay -- French Attitudes towards Native Society -- Subarctic Indians and Wildlife -- PART III SOCIAL HISTORY -- The Iroquois and the Fur Trade in Western Canada -- Orkneymen in the HBC 1780 - 1821 -- 'Mixt Bands of Many Nations': 1821-70 -- Linguistic Solitudes and Changing Social Categories -- Fur Trade Social History: Some Recent Trends -- PART IV PERSONALITIES -- Angus Bethune -- Kwah: A Carrier Chief -- PART V ON THE PACIFIC COAST -- Wrangel and Simpson -- The Russian Fur Trade -- Outfitting New Caledonia 1821-58 -- PART VI ECONOMIC ASPECTS -- Indians as Consumers in the Eighteenth Century -- Agriculture and the Fur Trade -- Innis, the Fur Trade, and Modern Economic Problems -- EPILOGUE -- Bibliography of Published Works Cited