 | The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age Subjects: Fur trade -- Canada Northern -- History; Hudson’s Bay Company -- History; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Economic conditions; Ray's study is the first to make extensive use of the Hudson's Bay Company archives dealing with the period between 1870 and 1945. These and other documents reveal a great deal about the decline of the company, and thus about a key element in the history of the modern Canadian fur trade. Ray Arthur : Arthur J. Ray is a professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, and author of Indians in the Fur Trade and I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People. |
