The Canadian West and the Fur Trade, c.1812

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The Canadian West and the Fur Trade, c.1812

Source:  Goetzmann, William H., and Glyndwr Williams. 1992. The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole. New York: Prentice Hall. 117.
Date Digitized:  06 July 2011

Map Description:
This map displays the trade routes and posts of the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company around the year 1812. The map further indicates the regions known to people of European descent at that time and the locations of the peoples indigenous to the region - Hare and Nahani in Northwest Canada; Inuit and Yellowknife and Slave in Northern Central Canada; Kootenay, Blood Piegan, Assiniboin, and Mandan in the Northwest U.S. region.

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