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Title: |
The HBC Brigades |
| Sub-title: |
Culture, conflict and perilous journeys of the fur trade |
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| By (author): |
Nancy Marguerite Anderson |
| ISBN10-13: |
1553807014 : 9781553807018 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Ronsdale Press - May 2024 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
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No Longer Distributing
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| A lively recounting of the tough men and heroic but overworked packhorses who broke open B.C. to the big business of the 19th-century fur trade. ï"¿Facing a gruelling thousand-mile trail, the brigades of the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) pushed onward over mountains and through ferocious river crossings to reach the isolated fur-trading posts. But it wasnâ t just the landscape the brigades faced, as First Nations people struggled with the desire to resist, or assist, the fur companyâ s attempts to build their brigade trails over the Aboriginal trails that led between Indigenous communities, which surrounded the trading posts. Nancy Marguerite Anderson reveals how the devastating Cayuse War of 1847 forced the HBC men over a newly-explored overland trail to Fort Langley. The journey was a disaster-in-waiting. |
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