"Many Tender Ties" Women in Fur-Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1870 by Sylvia Van Kirk
8vo. pp. 303. 1 double-page map & b/w illustrations. index. hardcover. dw. (near fine - some wear & two short tears along top edge of dw.). Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing Ltd.,1980.
ISBN-10: 0920486061 / ISBN-13: 9780920486061
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Beginning with the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of the Canadian west. Although detailed accounts of the fur-trade era have appeared, until recently the rich social history has been ignored. In this book, the fur trade is examined not simply as an economic activity but as a social and cultural complex that was to survive for nearly two centuries.