Fur trading started between the Europeans along with the Aboriginals when the most valuable beaver pelts was a substituted for metal and clothing goods such as iron knives and axis, copper kettles, bl...
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CONSUMPTIONBy Kevin PattersonNan A. Talese/Doubleday, 381 pages, $25
The Canadian writer and doctor Kevin Patterson has written nonfiction about a Pacific sea voyage, The Water in Between (2000), t...
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The History of the Hudson Bay Company
Death in a Cold Climate
