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

Mackie, Richard S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774806133 ISBN 13: 9780774806138

Publisher: UBC Press, 1997

Synopsis

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the North West and Hudson's Bay companies extended their operations to the Pacific Ocean, where, with the aid of Native traders, they branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Mackie shows how the well-capitalized Hudson's Bay Company created a regional economy on the Pacific coast and documents how the Native people played a part in the emerging economy and how, in myriad ways, they paid for contact with British commerce.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Mackie is a freelance historian and lecturer who lives in Courtenay, British Columbia. He is the author of The Wilderness Profound: Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia (1995).

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Using complex data from Company records, and extensive unpublished correspondence, as well as reports, contemporary accounts, and unpublished memoirs, Mackie takes us on an in-depth historical tour of the Columbia Department’s multifaceted Pacific Coast operations.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.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0774806133
• ISBN 13: 9780774806138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440