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Author: Simon Fraser
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2007-05-30
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1550027131
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Librarian W. Kaye Lamb provides an illuminating introduction and annotations to the journals of Simon Fraser, ?founder of British Columbia.”
Author: W. Kaye Lamb
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-18
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781525257155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook the third major expedition (after Alexander Mackenzie's and Lewis and Clark's) across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now bears his name.Employed by the Montreal-based North West Company, Fraser was responsible for building many of British Columbia's first trading posts. His exploratory efforts helped lead to Canada's boundary later being declared at the 49th parallel. In this new volume, librarian and archivist W. Kaye Lamb provides a detailed introduction as well as illuminating annotations to Fraser's journals, which were originally published by Macmillan of Canada in 1960."
Author: Simon Fraser
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of expeditions up the Fraser River to establish trading posts.
Author: Benjamin Drew
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 1459729048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Voyageur Classics is a series that issues special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of Canadian historical writing. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Simon Fraser undertook the third major expedition across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now bears his name. Fraser’s exploratory efforts helped lead to Canada’s boundary later being declared at the 49th parallel. In this new volume, librarian and archivist W. Kaye Lamb provides a detailed introduction as well as illuminating annotations to Fraser’s journals. In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. In the course of his journeys in Canada, Drew visited Chatham, Toronto, Galt, Hamilton, London, Dresden, Windsor, and a number of other communities. Originally published in 1856, Drew’s book is the only collection of first-hand interviews of fugitive slaves in Canada ever done. It is an invaluable record of early black Canadian experience. Includes The Refugee The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808
Author: J. Friesen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780771097966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The distinctive character of B.C., which is found not only in its spectacular environment, but also in its community, its politics and its past, is admirably captured in this collection of 16 essays.
Author: Dale L. Morgan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published:
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernd Horn
Publisher: Dundurn
Published:
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781550027228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George A. Cevasco
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1997-12-09
Total Pages: 958
ISBN-13: 0313036497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.
Author: Elizabeth Vibert
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780806129327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is the most original, most thoughtful piece of scholarship of our times on the fur trade of the Plateau."--WILLIAM R. SWAGERTY, University of Idaho.
Author: Professor M Daunton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 1000144542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the 17th and 18th centuries, from the multiple kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. But the process also ran across the Irish sea and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. In the process, the indigenous peoples of North America, the Caribbean, the Cape, Australia and New Zealand were forced to redefine their identities. This text integrates the history of these areas with British and imperial history. With contributions from both sides of the Atlantic, each chapter deals with a different aspect of British encounters with indigenous peoples in Colonial America and includes, for example, sections on "Native Americans and Early Modern Concepts of Race" and "Hunting and the Politics of Masculinity in Cherokee treaty-making, 1763-1775". This book should be of particular interest to postgraduate students of Colonial American history and early modern British history.
