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North of Athabasca : Slave Lake and Mackenzie River documents of the North West Company, 1800-1821 / edited with an introduction by Lloyd Keith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keith, Lloyd, Author.
- Series:
- Rupert's Land Record Society series.
- Rupert's Land Record Society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North West Company--History--Sources.
- North West Company.
- North West Company--Biography.
- North West Company--History.
- Fur trade--Northwest Territories--Great Slave Lake Region--History--19th century--Sources.
- Fur trade.
- Fur trade--Northwest Territories--Mackenzie River Region--History--19th century--Sources.
- Indigenous peoples--Northwest Territories--Great Slave Lake Region--History--19th century--Sources.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indigenous peoples--Northwest Territories--Mackenzie River Region--History--19th century--Sources.
- Northwest Territories--Biography.
- Northwest Territories.
- Great Slave Lake Region (N.W.T.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Great Slave Lake Region (N.W.T.).
- Mackenzie River Region (N.W.T.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Mackenzie River Region (N.W.T.).
- Great Slave Lake (N.W.T.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Great Slave Lake (N.W.T.).
- Mackenzie River (N.W.T.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Mackenzie River (N.W.T.).
- Northwest Territories--Genealogy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (523 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using unused or little-known documents, Keith fills in gaps and corrects inconsistencies in previous information about the company. North of Athabasca not only includes the extensively annotated texts of eleven North West Company documents but Keith's introductory essay amplifies what is known about the context of the fur trade. His biographical notes provide personal details about the proprietors and clerks involved in the fur trade as well as the engagés and aboriginal trading leaders. A sketch of the trading activities of every Native mentioned in the journals is included. Engagés are shown to be more than labouring drones - Keith demonstrates that men such as Jean-Baptiste LaPrise were as important in furthering the interests of the North West Company north of Athabasca as any of the clerks or proprietors who kept the accounts and wrote the journals included here. The journals, often in fractured English or colloquial Canadian French, and incorporating aboriginal terminology, make intriguing reading. A glossary is provided to assist with some of the more arcane terms. North of Athabasca fills an important void in the literature on this period and region. Readers interested in fur trade history as well as students of exploration, genealogy, ethnography, and Native studies will find this a welcome addition to the literature on a fascinating topic.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: OVERVIEW I
- Historical Background 3
- The Distant Past 3
- The Recent Past 6
- The North West Company 9
- Slave Lake District, 1786-99 13
- Mackenzie RiverDistrict, 1795-1800 14
- James Porter'sJournal, 1800-1 18
- John Thomson'sJournal, 1800-1 22
- Arrival of Opposition in Athabasca, 1 8o-4' 26
- EarlyJournals ofW.F. Wentzel, 1802-5 31
- Alexander McKenzie'sJournal, 1805-6 37
- Alexander HenryJr'sJournal, 18o6 41
- George Keith'sJournals, 1805-7 43
- W.F. Wentzel'sJournals, 1805-o8 53
- Declining Returns from the Mackenzie, 1807-15 57
- Roderic McKenzie Correspondence, 1807-24 58
- Aftermath, 1816-21 66
- Wentzel's "Account of Mackenzies River with a Chart,"
- 1821 70
- Conclusions 76
- PART TWO:
- NORTH WEST COMPANY DOCUMENTS 81
- James Porter's Slave LakeJournal of 1800-1 83
- John Thomson'sJournal of 1800-1 126
- W.F. Wentzel'sJournals of 1802 and 1804-5 157
- Alexander McKenzie'sJournal of 1805-6 207
- Alexander Henry, Jr'sJournal of 1806 252
- George Keith'sJournals of 1805-6 and 1806-7 259
- W.F. Wentzel'sJournals and "Account of Mackenzies River,"
- 1805-21 288
- Biographical Notes, Mackenzie River and Slave Lake
- Districts, 1795-1821 365
- Glossary 451
- Notes 457
- Bibliography 479
- Index 489.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-488) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85888-2
- 9786612858888
- 0-7735-6871-9
- OCLC:
- 929121303
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