Beyond the River and the Bay: Some Observations on the State of the Canadian Northwest in 1811 with a View to Providing the Intending Settler with an Intimate Knowledge of that CountryBased on an imaginary long-lost manuscript by Ian Alexander Bell Robertson invented by the author in order to integrate remarks by contemporary observers into the text. Gives a picture of the Northwest as it was immediately prior to the first white settlement and is based on sources that would have been available to the writer at that time. |
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Contents
The Northwest | 14 |
The Fur Trade | 33 |
Transportation and Communication | 53 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Beyond the River and the Bay: Some Observations on the State of the Canadian Northwest in 1811 with a View to Providing the Intending Settler with an Intimate Knowledge of that Country Volume 131 of Canadian university paperbooks |
| Author | Eric Ross |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jul 2006 |
| ISBN | 0802052231, 9780802052230 |
| Length | 190 pages |
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