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A Note on Recent Publications on the Fur Trade1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

H. A. Innis
H. A. Innis*
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The University of Toronto
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , November 1936 , pp. 562 - 573
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1936

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Footnotes

1

Journals of Samuel Hearne and Philip Turnor. Edited with introduction and notes by J. B. Tyrrell. (Publications of the Champlain Society, XXI.) Toronto: The Champlain Society. 1934. Pp. xviii, 611.

Documents relating to the North West Company. Edited with introduction, notes, and appendices by W. S. WALLACE. (Publications of the Champlain Society, XXII.) Toronto: The Champlain Society. 1934. Pp. xiii, 527, xii.

The White-Headed Eagle: John McLoughlin, Builder of an Empire. By RICHARD G. MONTGOMERY. New York: The Macmillan Company. [Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada.) 1935. Pp. xiii, 358. ($4.00)

Arctic Trader: The Account of Twenty Years with the Hudson's Bay Company. By PHILIP H. GODSELL. New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons. [1934.] Pp. viii, 329. ($3.50)

References

2 Fleming, R. H., “Phyn Ellice and Company of Schenectady” (Contributions to Canadian Economics, vol. IV, pp. 7–41)Google Scholar; Wallace, W. S., “The Pedlars from Quebec” (Canadian Historical Review, 12, 1932, pp. 387–402)Google Scholar; The Ermatinger Papers in the Public Archives of Canada; The Askin Papers (Detroit, 1928)Google Scholar; and the Williams Papers (see Innis, H. A., Peter Pond, Trader and Adventurer, Toronto, 1930, pp. 151–3).Google Scholar

3 Tyrrell, (ed.), Journals of Hearne and Turnor, pp. 7–8.Google Scholar

4 Wallace, (ed.), Documents relating to the North West Company, pp. 39–44.Google Scholar

5 Tyrrell, (ed.), Journals of Hearne and Turnor, p. 17.Google Scholar

6 Ibid., p. 241.

7 Ibid., p. 122.

8 Probably this group with or without other traders was responsible for the reference in 1776 in the extract of a letter: “The Northwest Company are not better than they ought to be, their conduct in sending an embassy to Congress in '76 may be traced now to matters more detrimental.” Also in a letter of Lawrence Ermatinger, Nov. 28, 1776.

9 Tyrrell, (ed.), Journals of Hearne and Turnor, pp. 37–40.Google Scholar

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid., pp. 41-2.

12 Wallace, (ed.), Documents relating to the North West Company, p. 56.Google Scholar

13 Ibid., pp. 54 ff.

14 Tyrrell, (ed.), Journals of Hearne and Turnor, p. 51.Google Scholar

15 Ibid., p. 55.

16 John Askin wrote on June 13, 1778, to these men, “As I'm informed that you have to transact the business of the N.W. Co. this season”, and on June 14 to Todd and McGill, “As to the supplying of others with rum, corn, etc. after I have made sure of what will be wanted for the great Co. (as we must now term them for distinction sake)”.

17 Tyrrell, (ed.), Journals of Hearne and Turnor, p. 57.Google Scholar

18 Ibid., pp. 221-2.

19 Ibid., p. 253.