The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age

by Arthur J. Ray

Throughout much of the nineteenth century the Hudson's Bay Company had a virtual monopoly on the core area of the fur trade in Canada. Its products were the object of intense competition among merchants on two continents - in Leipzig, New York, London, Winnipeg, St Louis, and Montreal. But in 1870 things began to change, and by the end of the Second World War the company's share had dropped to about a quarter of the trade. Arthur Ray explores the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802067433
• ISBN13: 9780802067432
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher