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Historical Disciplines and Subjects: Fur Trade History

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• Alexandre "Buck" Choquette and The Gold Rush (Choquet-Choquette Genealogy). Excerpts, with modern interpretations, from Henry W. Clark's self-published book, Buck Choquette, Stampeder (1960). Choquette participated in the fur trade and in the BC gold rushes of the 1860s. Site is available in French or English. Date added: 1995-2003.10.12.
• Exploration, the Fur Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company. (Early Canadiana Online and others). Bilingual: English and French. Date accessed: 2002.04.09. Date added: 2002.04.09.
• Fort Langley National Historic Site (Parks Canada). Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• Fort Nisqually (Washington). This was a Hudson's Bay Company outpost built in 1833. Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• Fort St. James National Historic Site (Parks Canada). Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (Washington). Established by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825. Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria (BC Heritage Branch, Province of BC, and Canada's Digital Collections). Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• Hudson's Bay Company Digital Collection (Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature and Canada's Digital Collections). Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• Hudson's Company "Our History". Date added: 1995-2003.10.01.
• In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company (McGill University, Montreal, QC). Includes browsable/searchable digital facsimiles of manuscripts known as the Masson Papers (ca 1790 –1820) preserved at McGill University, along with supporting research materials. Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• "A List of Trading Vessels in Maritime Fur Trade, 1785-1794" by F.W. Howay (Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Sec. II, 1930, 111-134) and "A List of Trading Vessels In the Maritime Fur Trade, 1795-1804" by F.W. Howay (Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Sec. II, 1931, 117-149). Transcribed to HTML by John Lutz, University of Victoria, BC. Date added: 1995-2003.09.12.
• Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration (National Library of Canada and Canada's Digital Collections). This virtual exhibit includes information on a few individuals involved with the fur trade in BC. Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• The Pioneer Explorations of Scotch Boy John Tod (British Columbia Heritage Branch and Canada's Digital Collections). Tod was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade officer who lived out his life in Victoria; his home still stands in Oak Bay. Date added: 1995-2003.10.01.
• San Juan Island National Historical Park (San Juan Island, WA) commemorates the joint military occupation by American and British troops between 1859-1872 of the site of the Pig War. Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.
• Sea to Sea to Sea Historic Park of Bella Coola (CentralCoastBC.com) is an online booklet about Sir Alexander Mackenzie's epic journey across Canada which ended in Bella Coola in 1793. Date added: 1995-2003.10.17.

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Compiled by David Mattison, Victoria Telecommunity Network, BC. Copyright © 1995-2003 by David Mattison. This page may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my consent.