The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857

Author Edwin E. Rich

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Volume XI of the Canadian Centenary Series

Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.

The Great Shield of Canada, composed of Precambrian rock overlaid with pockets of shallow soil, effectively isolated nearly half the area of present-day Canada from the first European settlers. This formidable natural barrier thwarted access westward and northward from the St. Lawrence basin, and was an important factor in the three centuries of development prior to Confederation.

This authoritative book deals with the rivalry…

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November 1, 2016

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EDWIN ERNEST RICH (1907--1979), M.A., LITT. D., was named Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval and Imperial History at Cambridge University in 1951. He was also master of St. Catharine’s College in that university. He was a fellow of Trumbull College, Yale University, and an honorary fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge University, and of Worcester College, Oxford University. Dr. Rich was born in Bristol, England and was educated at Colston’s School and at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Among E.E. Rich’s publications are: Staple Courts of Bristol (1931), Ordinances of the Merchants of Staple (1935), Hudson’s Bay Company 1670-1870 (1958-59), andMontreal and the Fur Trade (1964). Professor Rich was general editor of the Hudson’s Bay Record Society’s publications from 1937 to 1960.