University of California Publications in History, Bind 7University of California Press, 1918 |
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agents Alexander Mackenzie appear Assiniboine Astoria Athabasca Bathurst Beaver Board of Trade Bourgeois Britain British Burpee Canadian Archives canoes carried charter Chipewean circa Company's copy dated Deer in hair Detroit duties east Ellice England Esquisse established expedition exported firm of McTavish Fort William Fraser fur trade gallons Goulburn Grand Portage Grant Haldimand Henry Hudson's Bay Company hundred Ibid Indians Inglis Isaac Todd John Joseph Frobisher July June Lake Superior land latitude letter London longitude Masson Papers McGillivrays and Company Memorialists Michilimackinac Montreal mouth Nipigon North West Company November October Otter Pacific pany party Peace River petition Pond posts pounds Privy Council Province Quebec Red River Report returns Rocky Mountains Roderick McKenzie route Saskatchewan Selkirk sent Settlement shares ships side Simon McGillivray Simon McTavish Skins Slave Lake territory Thain Thompson Upper Canada Voyages Western Sea William McGillivray wintering partners
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Side 283 - His Royal Highness the Prince Re-gent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Side 97 - In 1801 the northwest company determined to extend their Fur Trade to the west side of the Rocky Mountains, and if possible to the Pacific Ocean; this expedition was intrusted to me, and I crossed the Mountains to the head waters of McGillivray's...
Side 254 - A Sketch of the British Fur Trade in North America, with Observations relative to the Northwest Company of Montreal.
Side 305 - State, to any body corporate, or company, or person or persons, of or for the exclusive privilege of trading with the Indians in all such parts of North America...
Side 66 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Side 258 - Last year the passes for the Indian goods were given out so late, that it was impossible to forward goods to the places of destination, especially in the North-West. For that reason those concerned in that quarter joined their stock together and made one common interest...
Side 256 - Indian Trade by every communication is carried on at great expense, labour and risk of both men and property; every year furnishes instances of the loss of men and goods by accident or otherwise. It is not therefore to be expected that the traders in general are men of substance; indeed few of them are able to purchase with ready money such goods as they want for their trade.
Side 256 - ... want for their trade. They are consequently indebted from year to year, until a return is made in Furrs, to the merchants of Quebec and Montreal who are importers of goods from England and furnish them on credit. In this manner the Upper Country Trade is chiefly carried on by men of low circumstances, destitute of every means to pay their debts when their trade fails; and if it should be under great restraints, or obstructed a few years, the consequences would prove ruinous to the commercial...
Side 256 - ... of men and goods by accident or otherwise. It is not therefore to be expected that the traders in general are men of substance; indeed few of them are able to purchase with ready money such goods as they want for their trade. They are consequently indebted from year to year, until a return is made in...
Side 220 - The articles necessary for this trade, are coarse woollen cloths of different kinds; milled blankets of different sizes; arms and ammunition; twist and carrot tobacco; Manchester goods; linens, and coarse sheetings; thread, lines, and twine; common hardware; cutlery and ironmongery of several descriptions; kettles of brass and copper, and...