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Voyageur contracts : 20 printed documents with manuscript additions.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Fur trade.
- Hides and skins.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Law.
- Politics and government.
- Voyages and travels.
- Québec--Montréal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1800-1806.
- Summary:
- Fur trade contracts signed in front of Montreal notaries.
- Notes:
- Fur company owners employed 'voyageurs' to travel into the interior regions of modern-day Canada to obtain furs from the native American Indians there. French-Canadian voyageurs were considered the best. Fur company owners had to apply to the government for licenses to send these traders into the interior.Please note that some of the metadata and translations for this document are taken from the University of Alberta library finding aid, with information originally compiled by Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller Inc.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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