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Fish, Food and the Fur Trade: The use of Hudson’s Bay Company’s post journals for Moose Factory, Cumberland House, Edmonton House, Fort Athabasca, and Ile a la Crosse to reconstruct the provisioning of fish, fowl and game, ca. 1777 - 1827
DownloadFall 2018
Most historical research of the fur trade era has focused on the trade of fur and there has been limited recognition of the use of fish for non-commodity uses. Fish were not a commodity that the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) traded for the purpose of exporting back to Europe as had been done with...
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Fort Selkirk: Early Contact Period Interaction Between the Northern Tutchone and the Hudson's Bay Company in Yukon
DownloadSpring 2012
Historical archaeology has often struggled to reveal the roles that Indigenous people played as socio-economic agents during the initial contact period in North America. Previous research in the discipline largely focused either on reconstructing everyday life in early European settlements while...