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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| 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 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 190 pages |
| Subjects | › › Canada, Western Canada, Western Description and travel Frontier and pioneer life History / Canada / General History / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867) Indians of North America Northwest, Canadian Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Travel / Canada / Territories & Nunavut (NT, NU, YT) |
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