The North West Company: Frontier Merchants

The book is not intended to be either exhaustive or scholarly. The bibliography, which is limited to secondary sources, is provided as “Further Reading” rather than as the research basis for the book. Town does not indicate whether she used any archival resources although the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives is a rich and accessible resource and she does not cite any newspaper references which would have provided a very useful perspective on the corporate events leading to the sale of the Northern Stores Division and the establishment of The North West Company in 1987. The format suggests that the author’s audience is in the secondary schools. Most of the illustrations are familiar and tend to reinforce the textbook nature of this project although the general reader will certainly find The North West Company a valuable introduction to the history of the fur trade and the development of the modern North."--from ://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/39/northwestcompany.shtml.