The North West CompanyUniversity of California Press, 1918 - 349 страница History of a major company in the early Canadian fur trade, and of its competition with the Hudson's Bay Company. |
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agents Alexander Mackenzie appear Assiniboine Athabasca Bathurst Beaver Board of Trade Bourgeois Britain British Burpee Canadian Archives canoes carried charter Chipewean circa Company's copy dated Deer in hair Detroit duties east Ellice England Esquisse established expedition exported firm of McTavish Fort William Fraser fur trade gallons Goulburn Grand Portage Grant Haldimand Henry House Hudson's Bay Company hundred Ibid Indians Inglis Isaac Todd John Joseph Frobisher July June Lake Superior latitude letter London longitude Masson Papers McGill University McGillivrays and Company Memorialists Michilimackinac Montreal mouth Nipigon North West Company November October Otter Pacific pany party Peace River petition Pond posts pounds Privy Council Province Quebec Red River Report returns Rocky Mountains Roderick McKenzie route Saskatchewan Selkirk sent shares ships side Simon McGillivray Simon McTavish Skins Slave Lake territory Thain Thompson Upper Canada Voyages Western Sea William McGillivray wintering partners
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Страница 256 - Trade, was more general every purchaser of goods would be less liable to imposition. Last year the passes for the Indian goods were given out so late, that it was impossible to forward goods to the places of destination, especially in the North-West. For that reason those concerned in that quarter joined their stock together and made one common interest...
Страница 254 - Indian Trade by every communication is carried on at great expense, labour and risk of both men and property; every year furnishes instances of the loss of men and goods by accident or otherwise. It is not therefore to be expected that the traders in general are men of substance; indeed few of them are able to purchase with ready money such goods as they want for their trade.
Страница 254 - ... want for their trade. They are consequently indebted from year to year, until a return is made in Furrs, to the merchants of Quebec and Montreal who are importers of goods from England and furnish them on credit. In this manner the Upper Country Trade is chiefly carried on by men of low circumstances, destitute of every means to pay their debts when their trade fails; and if it should be under great restraints, or obstructed a few years, the consequences would prove ruinous to the commercial...
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