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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0774805595
ISBN-13: 9780774805599
Feb 1997
Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
420 pages
Language: English |
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| Size | | Length: | 420 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 28.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
Within 20 years Simpson and his capable managers John McLoughlin and James Douglas successfully enlarged the [Hudson's Bay] Company's trade to include significant exports of wheat, flour, salmon, and lumber to the Sandwich Islands, Sitka, and briefly, to San Francisco. Mackie also describes Simpson's successful efforts to make the Company posts in the region self-sufficient, primarily through a large farm at Fort Vancouver. Less detailed is Mackie's account of the Company's intensive use of native labor, including some slaves. This exceptionally well documented history is marred only by poor editing, which allowed too much repetition.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Sherrill
The title of this book is actually somewhat misleading because it deals with far more than the fur trade in what after 1821 became the Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company. Mackie traces the history o the notion of a 'British, transcontinental commerce' linking the Canadian colonies with the Pacific. After a short discussion of early attempts to find the Northwest Passage and the operations of various companies in the Pacific, including the North West Company, Mackie focuses on the HBC and how, under the direction of George Simpson from 1821, it succeeded in achieving the transcontinental commerce others had aimed at. . . . [Mackie's text is] extremely detailed--sometimes too detailed--and the reader sometimes loses sight of the train of the argument. Nevertheless, this book will prove extremely useful for anyone seeking information on the HBC's business in the western part of its territory.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Sherrill
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