The Beaver, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint): A Journal of Progress; May, 1922 - Couverture souple

Company, Hudson's Bay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1334546258 ISBN 13 : 9781334546259

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A rare look at early 20th‑century North American life, history, and storytelling in one volume. This edition blends corporate history with gripping fiction set against the Canadian frontier.

The Beaver, Vol. 2: A Journal of Progress; May, 1922 gathers a wide range of material tied to the Hudson’s Bay Company and its growing footprint in Canada. Readers will encounter era‑driven overviews, community notices, and practical how‑to features, all wrapped in a period voice that reflects its time. Interleaved with these nonfiction pieces are serialized fictional scenes that explore courage, ambition, and the moral choices people faced in distant communities.

• Historical context for Canada’s growth and the HBC’s role in shaping cities and commerce


• Community updates, exhibitions, and commentary from a regional business perspective


• Serialized fiction with themes of risk, loyalty, and frontier life


• Practical notes and anecdotes that illuminate daily life in early‑20th‑century Vancouver and its surrounds

Ideal for readers of historical periodicals, early Canadian business history, and serialized frontier fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

American vessels, he resolved to establish a fort in some well situated, central position which would draw the trade for miles in every direction. The first outward and visible sign of this inward intention was the dispatching of an expedition in the Fall of 1824, under James Mc Millan, to examine the vicinity of the mouth of the Eraser Driver for a suitable site. It would be wandering too far afield to sketch the movements of this party from the time they left A storia. The record of the journey has been preserved and is published in the Washington Historical Quarterly. No one can read of the way they portaged their boats and they were each large enough to hold twenty men and their provisions and outfits from the Columbia river to Shoalwater bay; how they dragged and poled them along the Pacific ocean shore to Grays Harbour; how they pulled and hauled them by sheer brute strength from the Chehalis river to Puget Sound; how after ascending the Nicomekl river they dragged them eight or ten miles across Langley prairie until they struck the little stream we now call the Salmon river; without a thrill of pride in their courage and daring and a feeling of reflected glory in belonging to a race that could produce men capable of such things. Truly there were giants on earth in those days. Mc Millan and his forty companions reached the site of the future Fort Langley in December, 1824. They record, with feelings we can well imagine, the downpour of weighty rain that greeted them as they neared Old Father Fraser. They navigated the river for a few miles beyond Mission and then made their way back to Puget Sound, sailing their boats out of the river, the first of white men to pass out of that river and the second to float on its waters. The report of the expedition was placed by Simpson before the annual council at Norway House, and, after some delay, instructions we
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334546258
• ISBN 13: 9781334546259
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
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