Fur trade letters of Willie Traill, 1864-1894
by Willie Traill
"William Edward Traill, better known as Willie, was the son of Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada (1836), and nephew of Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush (1852), and he too was a natural writer." "Traill left Upper Canada to join the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become the Canadian West. For some thirty years, he worked his way up from clerk to Chief Trader. He also met and married Harriet McKay and together they had twelve children." "His letters home between 1864 and 1893 convey a rich and detailed portrait of domestic life in the service of the fur trade of the Northwest. At turns gritty, then deeply touching, the Willie Traill letters are a fascinating and unguarded portrait of the joys and heartbreaking challenges of raising a family in the fur trade."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biographies, Biography, Commerce, Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson, Correspondance, Correspondence, Coureurs de bois, Fourrures, Frontier and pioneer life, Fur trade, Fur traders, Histoire, History, Hudson's Bay Company, Vie des pionniers, Hudson's bay company, Canada, economic conditionsTimes
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Fur trade letters of Willie Traill, 1864-1894
2006, University of Alberta Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0888644604 9780888644602
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-314) and index.
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