Journal of Occurrences in the Athabasca Department by George Simpson, 1820 and 1821, and Report. Edited by E.E. Rich, with a Foreword by Lord Tweedsmuir, and an Introduction by Chester Martin
Published by Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1938
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Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, CanadaJ. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC)
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thick8vo, 24cm, lix,498p., appendices, photogravure frontis portrait of Simpson, & 4 rear folding maps in pocket, limited to 550 copies, this being #142, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., bookplate, a very good copy.(ar). Immediately after his appointment as Governor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company, locum Tenens, 1820, George Simpson travelled from Montreal following the old fur trade route to Fort William, and then to the Athabaska region, to control hostilities between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. From Rock Depot, Manitoba, he moved to Athabaska and organized an amalgamation in 1821. The journal in which his historic trip was reported to the Company appears in the handwriting of Simpson's clerk, Robert Seaborn Miles.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Journal of Occurrences in the Athabasca Department by George Simpson, 1820 and 1821, and Report. Edited by E.E. Rich, with a Foreword by Lord Tweedsmuir, and an Introduction by Chester Martin
- Author
- SIMPSON, George]
- Publisher
- Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1938
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