Strangers in Blood

Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country

By Jennifer S.H. Brown
Categories: History, Canadian History, Indigenous History, Indigenous Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774802512, 275 pages, January 1980
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774852661, 275 pages, August 2014
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774853590, 275 pages, October 2007
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774858083, 275 pages, January 1980

Table of contents

Illustrations

Preface

1. The Backgrounds and Antecedents of the British Traders

2. Company Men with a Difference: The London and Montreal Britishers

3. Company Men and Native Women in Hudson Bay

4. North West Company Men and Native Women

5. Gentlemen of 1821: New Directions in Fur Trade Social Life

6. Different Loyalties: Sexual and Marital Relationships of Company Officers after 1821

7. Fur Trade Parents and Children before 1821

8. Patterns and Problems of "Placing": Company Offspring in Britain and Canada after 1821

9. Fur Trade Sons and Daughters in a New Company

Context

References

Index

The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.

Description

The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group -- their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their offspring.