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Examines the life and accomplishments of fur trader and explorer Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to travel by land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean north of Mexico.
Life in the Canadian North described by a man who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company for nearly 50 years.
"As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and ...
"Skinheads, Fur Traders, and DJs is the true story of a precocious, pop-loving teenager who, in the early 1970s, went from London's discotheques to the Canadian sub-arctic to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. His job? B...
David THompson has been called one of the world's greatest geographers. During his 28 years in the fur trade, THompson walked, canoed, rode horses, and snow-shoed 88,500 kilometres, and surveyed more than 3 million squar...
A biography of the Canadian explorer, fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, David Thompson.
Examines the explorations of Sir Alexander Mackenzie in Canada.
"The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat tra...