Partners in furs : a history of the fur trade in eastern James Bay, 1600-1870

Francis, Daniel (author.). Morantz, Toby Elaine, 1943- (author.).

Summary: The patterns and course of contact between traders from Europe and the Indian populations are described and both English and French sources are used to reveal the competition between the two groups of traders and its impact on the native people. As the Hudson's Bay Company was the one permanent European presence during the period, this ethnohistorical study makes extensive use of unpublished HBC papers. The authors also examine such issues as the rise of a homeguard population at the trading posts, the trading captain system, the development of hamily hunting territories, and the issue of dependence and interdependence. Partners in Furs provides new insight and makes a significant contribution to current scholarly inquiry into the impact of the fur trade on the native populations.

Record details

ISBN: 9780773503861 (paperback)
ISBN: 0773503862 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1983]
Copyright: ©1983

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Bibliography: p. [175]-189.
Formatted Contents Note:	The land and the people: an introduction -- Strangers encroach on James Bay -- Competition for Indian furs, 1668-1693 -- Trading on the east main, 1693-1735 -- The fur trade in the eighteenth century -- A decade on Richmond Gulf -- Daily life in Eastmain House -- Penetrating the hinterland, 1770-1820 -- Big River Post and beyond, 1784-1824 -- A new relationship -- The Inuit and the north, 1837-1870 -- Rupert House in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion.