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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta

Call Number: 08.2 B51t

Responsibility: Edited with an introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 530 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Edmonton House Journals

Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company; Politics; Colonialism; History-Canada; History of Alberta; Indigenous

Abstract: In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged. The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover

Contents: Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821

ISBN: 9780929123202

Accession Number: P2022.08

Call Number: 08.2 B51t

Collection: Archives Library

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Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, reports from the Saskatchewan district including the Bow River expedition, 1821-1826

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2016

Publisher: Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta

Call Number: 08.2 B51e

Responsibility: Edited with an Introduction and Commentaries by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens

Publisher: Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: 440 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: History-Canada; Indigenous; Hudson's Bay Company; Hudson Bay; Fur trade; Saskatchewan

Abstract: During the 1820s, Edmonton House re-emerged as the headquarters of a much larger Saskatchewan trading District of the Hudson's Bay Company. Its fur-gathering larger hinterland extended from the southern edges of the boreal forest near present-day Westlock, Alberta, south to the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, and from the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers west to the Rocky Mountains - in short, virtually all of what is now central and southern Alberta, and parts of Saskatchewan and Montana. [...] The Bow River Expedition, 1822-1823 Seeking to expand the fur trade more completely into what is now southern Alberta, and northern Montana, the Hudson's Bay Company dispatched an expedition of officers and men up the South Saskatchewan River in 1822, with excursions to the Red Deer, Bow, and Oldman Rivers. Through circumstances, such as hostilities by certain Aboriginal groups and the scarcity of timber, persuaded the Company not to build a permanent post during this time, the journal of the expedition contains a wealth of information about the land and the people living on it. --From back cover

Contents: Edmonton House Post Journals, 1821-26 ; Edmonton District Reports, 1823-24 ; Bow River Expedition Journal ; Bow River District Reports

ISBN: 9781553834380

Accession Number: P2022.08

Call Number: 08.2 B51e

Collection: Archives Library

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Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, including the Peigan Post, 1826-1834

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta

Call Number: 08.2 B51h

Responsibility: Edited with an Introduction and Commentaries by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens

Publisher: Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 562 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House Journals

Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company; History; Fur trade; Canada - Western Region; Indigenous

Abstract: As Edmonton House entered its fourth decade, its future as one of the most profitable Hudson's Bay Company posts seeme secure, but were its best days behind it? In the late 1820s, John Rowand, the imposing figure in charge of the fort, struggled to adapt to the rapidly changing circumstances on the northwestern plains. American traders operating from the Missouri River began to draw off much of the trade of the Plains people, even as the relations among and within Plains nations grew ever more acrimonious. Closer to home, and much to Rowand's frustration, Metis families grew increasingly assertive and independent. Rowand could not find peace even within the fort palisades. Company servants chafed under the heavy hand of an increasingly irascible Rowand. The Edmonton House Journals published here offer a fascinating glimpse at the day-to-day life at one of the HBC's most important trading centres. Peigan Post, 1833-1834 John Rowand only reluctantly re-established an HBC presence on the southern plains of Rupert's Land in 1832. Having abandoned Chesterfield House in 1805, and having experienced much frustration with the Bow River Expedition in 1822-1823, the HBC established Peigan Post, on the Bow River, upstream from present-day Calgary in a desperate bid to regain the lucrative trade of the Peigan. The Peigan Post journals of 1833-1834 readily reveal the dangers and risks of trading at the location. -- Fom back cover