![]() | Letters from Rupert''s Land, 1826-1840: James Hargrave of the Hudson''s Bay Company Subjects: Hargrave James 1798–1865 -- Correspondence; Hudson’s Bay Company -- History; Fur trade -- Canada Western -- History -- 19th century; York Factory (Man.) -- History; Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada Western; Northwest Canadian -- History -- To 1870; James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering clerk, and went on to survive the company's 1821 merger with the rival Hudson's Bay Company and subsequent downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur trade at York Factory on the desolate shores of Hudson Bay in the service of Governor George Simpson. Helen Ross is a former scientist and epidemiologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. |
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