Beyond the River and the Bay : Some Observations on the State of the Canadian Northwest in 1811 with a View to Providing the Intending Settler with an Intimate Knowledge of That Country / Eric Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Eric, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--Canadian Northwest.

Northwest, Canadian--Description and travel.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Based on an imaginary long-lost manuscript by Ian Alexander Bell Robertson invented by the author in order to integrate remarks by contemporary observers into the text. Gives a picture of the Northwest as it was immediately prior to the first white settlement and is based on sources that would have been available to the writer at that time.

Contents:

1. The Northwest

2. The inhabitants of the Northwest

3. The fur trade

4. Transportation and communication

5. Supporting enterprises

6. Ports of entry

7. East Winnipeg, Muskrat and English River Countries, and the Barren Grounds

8. The Red River, Saskatchewan and Athabasca Countries.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8427-X

OCLC:

1129180180