MITCHELL AdrianABAA
Fort Timiskaming and the Fur Trade
19773711Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1977. First Edition. 306pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Brown cloth with the title in white on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gentle sun fading to the backstrip. Map present in the rear pocket. "After the coalition of the North West and Hudson's Bay companies in 1821 the Timiskaming department was divided into several smaller districts including one of the same name which embraced only two of the former posts Fort Timiskaming and Grand Lac. Both lay south of the Height of Land the boundary between the Hudson's Bay Company's chartered territories and the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada. Yet even the much-diminished district continued to yield substantial profits for the Hudson's Bay Company until after the middle of the century and this despite mounting opposition from Canadian petty traders who invaded the district from the Ottawa and Lake Huron threatening not only the Timiskaming trade but that of the Company's more valuable inland districts." - from the Preface. University of Toronto Press unknown books
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