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Rupert's Land : A Cultural Tapestry /

For nearly two centuries, the Company of Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay exported from Rupert's Land hundreds of thousands of pelts, leaving in exchange a wealth of European trade goods. Yet opening the vast northwest had more far-reaching effects than an exchange of beaver and beads...

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Collectivité auteur: Calgary Institute for the Humanities
Autres auteurs: Ruggles, Richard I., 1923-, Davis, Richard Clarke, 1946-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Waterloo, Ont. : Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1988.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:For nearly two centuries, the Company of Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay exported from Rupert's Land hundreds of thousands of pelts, leaving in exchange a wealth of European trade goods. Yet opening the vast northwest had more far-reaching effects than an exchange of beaver and beads. Essays by a dozen scholars explore the cultural tapestry woven by explorers, artists, settlers, traders, missionaries, and map makers. Richard Ruggles traces the mapping of the territory from the mysterious gaps of the 1500s to the grids of the nineteenth century. John L. Allen recounts how fur-trade exp.
Description:Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Calgary, Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 1986.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (335 pages): illustrations, maps, portraits
ISBN:9780889208391