Trading Beyond the Mountains: British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 - Hardcover

MacKie, Richard Somerset

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774805595 ISBN 13: 9780774805599

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, 1997

Synopsis

Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1811 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson's Bay Company's employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West Coast region.
This is the first book to disclose the extent and scale of the diverse commercial operations of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Pacific coast. It also provides an overdue account of the economic origins of British Columbia. With its impressive collection of maps and illustrations, it will be of interest to students and specialists of Canadian economic history, the history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, Native History, and the fur trade.

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Review

Using complex data from Company records, and extensive unpublished correspondence, as well as reports, contemporary accounts, and unpublished memoirs, Mackie takes us on an in-depth historical tour of the Columbia Department’s multifaceted Pacific Coast operations. We are introduced to the fur trade, the overland transportation and trade system, the coastal carrying trade, and a wide variety of economic activities literally “beyond the fur trade” that gave the Hudson’s Bay Company economic diversification in an age of staple dependencies ... No study to date has provided such depth.

Synopsis

Breaks new ground in documenting the scale and diversity of commercial operations by the Hudson's Bay Company on the Pacific coast and in providing a detailed account of the economic origins of British Columbia. Examines the early exploration and fur trading, the expansion of the company and the North West Company into such endeavors as farming, fi

Edition details

• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774805595
• ISBN 13: 9780774805599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 880