Friends, foes, and furs [electronic resource] : George Nelson's Lake Winnipeg journals, 1804-1822 / edited by Harry W. Duckworth.

"George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade. Friends, Foes, and Furs is a critical edition of Nelson's daily journals, supplemented wit...

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Main Author: Nelson, George, 1786-1859 (Author)
Other Authors: Duckworth, Harry W. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Series:Rupert's Land Record Society series ; 15
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George Nelson's Lake Winnipeg journals, 1804-1822
Friends, Foes, and Furs: George Nelson's Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804-1822
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490 0 |a Rupert's Land Record Society series ;  |v 15 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-456) and index. 
505 0 0 |t Extract from Sorel Journal, 1804-1805 --  |t Lac du Bonnet Journal, 29 August 1805-8 March 1806 --  |t Extract from Sorel Journal, 1806-1807 --  |t Extract from Reminiscences, Fall 1807 --  |t Journal at Dauphin River, 3 November 1807-31 August 1808 --  |t Journal at Dauphin River, 1 September 1808-31 March 1810, with an extract from Reminiscences --  |t Journal at Dauphin River and Tete-au-Brochet, 1 April 1810-1 May 1811 --  |t Summary of Nelsons Letters to His Family, 1811-1812, with an extract from Reminiscences --  |t Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1818-1819: Introduction --  |t Journal at Tete-au-Brochet, 21 September 1818-8 June 1819 --  |t Journal at Tete-au-Brochet, 1819 --  |t Journal from Fort Alexander to Cumberland House, 16 August-16 September 1819 --  |t Journal from Cumberland House to Fort William, 3 June-22 August 1822 --  |g Appendices --  |t Glossary and special terms in Nelsons Lake Winnipeg journals --  |t Indigenous people mentioned in Nelsons Lake Winnipeg journals --  |t Voyageurs mentioned in Nelsons Lake Winnipeg Journals --  |t Clerks, freemen, and partners --  |t Place Names Mentioned by Nelson. 
520 |a "George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade. Friends, Foes, and Furs is a critical edition of Nelson's daily journals, supplemented with exciting anecdotes from his "Reminiscences," which were written after his retirement to Lower Canada. An introduction and annotations by Harry Duckworth place Nelson's material securely within the established body of fur trade history. This series of journals gives readers a first-person account of Nelson's life and career, from his arrival at the age of eighteen in Lake Winnipeg, where he was stationed as an apprentice clerk from 1804 to 1813, to his second service from 1818 to 1819 and an 1822 canoe journey through the region. A keen and respectful observer, Nelson recorded in his daily journals not only the minutiae of his work, but also details about the lives of voyageurs, the Ojibwe and Swampy Cree communities, and others involved in the fur trade. His insights uncover an extraordinary view of the Lake Winnipeg region in the period just prior to European settlement. Making the full extent of George Nelson's journals available for the first time, Friends, Foes, and Furs is an intriguing account of one man's adventures in the fur trade in prairie Canada."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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