Alexander Kennedy Isbister : a respectable critic of the honourable Company / Barry Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Barry, 1943-

Series:

Carleton library ; no. 143.

Carleton library, 0576-7784 ; no. 143

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Isbister, Alexander Kennedy, 1822-1883.

Isbister, Alexander Kennedy.

Hudson's Bay Company--Biography.

Hudson's Bay Company.

Educators--Great Britain--Biography.

Educators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Born of mixed Scottish/Native Indian blood in what is now Saskatchewan, Isbister emigrated to Britain after he found his ambitions thwarted by Hudson's Bay Company policies regarding native-born employees. There he became a respected educator, but more important to this study, he also became the most persistent critic of the Company, and of British and Canadian policies dealing with the inhabitants of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Strategy And Context

Rupert’s Land Origins

Knowledge of the Company Lands

Knowledge Moralized

Settlement and Free Trade

Strategy Mobilized

Memorial and Petition

Vancouver’s Island

The Charter Challenged

Public Controversies

Canadian Intervention

The Last Round

Appendix I

Appendix II

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)

Other Format:

Print version: Cooper, Barry, 1943- Alexander Kennedy Isbister.

ISBN:

0-7735-7352-6

OCLC:

1380731118