by lakecountry | Sep 4, 2015 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
A response to last week’s blog post, Write in on the Heart: The sentiment behind this little poem [Fur Traders by Harry Robinson] is that the terms of trade between the fur traders (North West Company or Hudson’s Bay Company) and Indians were manipulated...
by lakecountry | Nov 14, 2014 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
During the early years of the fur trade, hundreds of young men moved to Rupert’s Land and the Columbia to work for the North West Company or, after 1821, the amalgamated firm, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). No white women accompanied these men and if the men stayed...
