The New North-West
The New North-West

Author: Carl A. Dawson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1980-12-15

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1442638079

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In 1944 the Canadian Social Science Research Council, with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation, organized a series of studies of northern Canada to stimulate public interest in the development of the region and to provide a background for more extensive investigation. In The New North-West, this series of articles and others dealing with northwestern Canada have been brought together in one volume, and the result is a comprehensive description and analysis of the western half of the Canadian northland. The book contains twelve parts. They discuss respectively: administration, Mackenzie and Yukon domesdays (two parts describing in detail the geographical setting and plan of settlements in these areas), mineral industry, fur production, northern agriculture, transportation, health conditions and services, education, the Eskimos and the new north-west. The last section is a bibliography which covers the whole of northern Canada and lists about four hundred selected titles in alphabetical order. It will be of interest to both American and Canadian readers.

Minnesota, the Empire State of the New North-west, the Commercial, Manufacturing and Geographical Centre of the American Continent
Minnesota, the Empire State of the New North-west, the Commercial, Manufacturing and Geographical Centre of the American Continent

Author: Minnesota. State Board of Immigration

Publisher:

Published: 1878

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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This 1878 pamphlet addresses itself to laboring and landless men, as well as to those of moderate means, who are seeking to escape the "tyrannies and thankless toil of the old world" and the overcrowded conditions and limited opportunities of regions in the eastern United States. It praises Minnesota's healthful climate and its network of railroads, its mineral resources, educational facilities, and demonstrated potential for agricultural production. There is specific information about the amount and location of public lands as well as the costs involved in homesteading. At the front of the book is a map of Minnesota townships and railroad routes.

The North West Company
The North West Company

Author: Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 178912199X

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In 1779 a group of independent fur traders from Montreal banded together to form the North West Company; this was a trading expedient and no one could have foreseen its brilliant and far-reaching results. Before the North West Company name disappeared in a merger with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 it had spanned the continent, reached the Arctic, and traded round the Horn to China. Many of the great rivers and lakes of the North and West carry the names of the company’s servants as the only memorial so far accorded them: Pond, Frobisher, Mackenzie, Thompson and Fraser are merely the best remembered of perhaps the most remarkable group of associates that Canada has seen. “...accurate, magnificently organized, sparely written...one of the finest works of Canadian history I have ever read...These men have the most marvellous characters who ever founded and operated a business enterprise in North America.”—Hugh MacLennan, award-winning Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University

The North West Company
The North West Company

Author: Florida Town

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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However, this is no romanticized saga. Town shows that the fur trade produced a peculiar cocktail of corporate manipulation, family ties, personal willfulness, political ineptitude, and frontier violence that led to one of the darkest periods of Canadian history. From 1811 when Lord Selkirk first brought his proposal to settle displaced Scots crofters in Rupert’s Land, to the merger of the North West and Hudson’s Bay companies in 1821, the fur trade was in the grip of turmoil. Although well-intentioned, Selkirk had already failed at several resettlement projects before he introduced the idea to the Hudson’s Bay Company ...

North-West Passage
North-West Passage

Author: Willy de Roos

Publisher: London ; Toronto : Hollis & Carter

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Account of author's solo expedition through the Northwest Passage aboard the yacht "Williwaw", from Greenland to the Bering Straits.

The Savage Border
The Savage Border

Author: Dr Jules Stewart

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0752496077

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The first significant book in forty years on this territory viewed for centuries as a lawless wilderness.

The New Northwest Passage
The New Northwest Passage

Author: Cameron Dueck

Publisher: Sandstone

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781908737151

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The Open Passage Expedition successfully sailed through the Northwest Passage during the summer of 2009. The crew not only succeeded in sailing some of the most dangerous waters in the world, but also learned more about the people and their land. This book tells of their expedition.

A Voyage to the North West Side of America
A Voyage to the North West Side of America

Author: Robert Galois

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0774840013

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Colnett's journal of this expedition is published here for the first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the journal. Galois supplements Colnett's writings with extracts from a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett's command. Also included are illustrations from Colnett's journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.