History Is Where You Stand

History Is Where You Stand --- Book 2: The Fur Trade

Table of Contents for the print version of "History is Where You Stand", located in the Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Access to the collection is through arrangement with the Librarian.

Last Revised: February 1999

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Chapter 1 The Foundations of the Fur Trade

1.01 The Beaver, the foundation of the Fur Trade -- Dorthea Calverley

1.02 The Voyageurs, the backbone of the Fur Trade -- Dorthea Calverley

1.03 Do you understand Canadian? -- Alberta Heritage Magazine

1.04 Unknown Explorers -- Royal Bank of Canada monthly letter, September 1979.

Chapter 2 The Founders of the Great Fur Trade Companies

2.01 Groseillier and Radisson -- Dorthea Calverley

2.02 A Tercentenary map of the Hudson's Bay Company Trading Posts -- Beaver magazine

2.03 Simon McTavish, head of the NorthWest Company -- Dorthea Calverley

2.04 Simon McTavish of the NorthWest Company -- Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

Chapter 3 The Fur Trade Enters the Peace River Country

3.01 Hudson's Bay Company in the Peace River District -- Beaver magazine

3.02 Prehistoric Trails -- Dorthea Calverley

3.03 The Isolated Peace River Country -- Dorthea Calverley

3.04 Peter Pond, Methye Portage and the First Northern Alberta Trading Post -- DH Calverley

3.05 Peter Pond and the Athabasca Country -- Dorthea Calverley

3.07 The Peace River and Sir Alexander Mackenzie -- Dorthea Calverley

3.08 Alexander Mackenzie to the Pacific -- Dorthea Calverley

3.09 William Tomison, Pioneer of the Fur Trade -- Dorthea Calverley

3.10 John Finlay and Fort St. John -- Dorthea Calverley

3.11 Excerpts from the Journal of Alexander Mackenzie

3.12 David Thompson puts the Peace River country on the map -- Dorthea Calverley

3.13 David Thompson under scrutiny -- Hugh A. Dempsey

3.14 David Thompson on the Peace River, Part II -- Hugh A. Dempsey

3.15 David Thompson on the Peace River, Part III -- Hugh A. Dempsey

3.16 Simon Fraser and Rocky Mt Portage House (Hudson's Hope) -- Dorthea Calverley

3.17 Simon Fraser and our southern link to the sea -- Dorthea Calverley

3.18 Simon Fraser -- Dorthea Calverley

3.19 Roderick Mackenzie who held the fort for Alexander -- Dorthea Calverley

3.20 A.N. McLeod and the Shaftesbury Trail -- Dorthea Calverley

3.21 John Clarke and the Lesser Slave Lake Trail -- Dorthea Calverley

3.22 Samuel Black, unknown explorer of the Finlay River -- Dorthea Calverley

3.23 James Murray Yale & the first HBCo post in the BC Peace -- Dorthea Calverley

3.24 Sir George Simpson & the union of the two great companies -- Dorthea Calverley

3.25 Gov. Simpson in the Peace River Canyon & on the Assiniboine Trail -- D.H. Calverley

3.26 Map of Peace River showing some early trading posts

3.27 Mishap on the way to Lake Athabaska -- David Thompson

Chapter 4 Life in a Fur Trade Post

4.01 Life in a Fur Trade Post (with photographs) -- Dorthea Calverley

4.02 Role of a Trader's wife with Indian customers, 1900's -- Hudson Hope Museum

4.03 Life of a Factor or post manager in the early fur trade -- Dorthea Calverley

4.04 Costume of the fur trade post Factor -- Father A.G. Morice, OMI

4.05 Portrait of Chief Factor John Rowand -- H.E. Rawlinson

4.06 Reminiscences of a HBCo Factor -- H.J. Moberly

4.07 Comic relief in the fur trade story -- Dorthea Calverley

4.08 Old-time company tactics -- Rosanna Seaborn

4.09 Men of the Hudson's Bay -- contributed by Jean W. Godsell

4.10 Trapline Tale -- George Hunter

4.11 Fur Trade in the early days fraught with many dangers

4.12 HBCo Motto, "Pro Pelle Cutem" -- two translations

4.13 Bargaining with the Factor

4.14 Literacy, literature and libraries in the fur trade -- M. Payne and G. Thomas

Chapter 5 Fur Trade Posts in the Peace River Country & related articles

5.01 Old forts and travellers in the Peace River -- BC Archives

5.02 Summary of some Peace Country forts

5.03 The Beaver Hudson's Bay Company posts -- George Pendleton

5.04 Rowand was strongman in HBCo's empire -- Dr. Ross Mitchell

5.05 Importance of Fort Edmonton in the fur trade -- W.D. Clark

5.06 Christmas holidays at the fort -- Peter Erasmus

5.07 The marks of time -- Hilda Ross

5.08 The broad axe -- Hilda Ross

5.09 Notes on Fort Edmonton -- from the Edmonton Journal

5.10 Restoring an original fur fort (Fort St. James) -- Canada Press

5.11 Fort Chipewyan - on the edge of history -- John. J. Chalmers

5.12 Emporium of the North -- Guy H. Blanchet

5.13 The fur war strategy, a story of old Fort Chipewyan -- J. H. Mosgrove

5.14 Fort St John -- from the Beaver magazine

5.15 The names of Fort St. John -- Finola Finlay

5.16 Fort St. John -- Finola Finlay

5.17 Fort George [Prince George] -- BC Archives & Alberta Archives

5.18 Hudson's Hope -- from the Beaver magazine

5.20 Dunvegan -- from the Beaver magazine and from Margaret Loggie

5.21 Founding Fort Nelson -- W. Cornwallis King as told to Mary Weekes

5.22 Farthest north farming at Rose Prairie trading post

5.23 Yale's House -- Dorthea Calverley

5.24 Dunlevy - Twelve Mile Creek

5.25 Dunlevy and Davis break the Bay's monopoly -- Dorthea Calverley

5.26 Twelve Foot Davis and associates in the tradition of enterprise -- Dorthea Calverley

5.27 Trapper-prospector Albert Faille, northerner extraordinary -- Dorthea Calverley

5.28 Henry John Moberly and the sportsman's paradise tradition -- Dorthea Calverley

5.29 Sheridan Lawrence, the agricultural tradition -- Dorthea Calverley

5.30 Pete Toy -- J.C. Bryant and Dorthea Calverley

5.31 "Peace River Jim" (Col. J.K. Cornwall) -- Dorthea Calverley

5.32 "Apostle of the Peace" from the Grande Prairie Herald

5.33 Peace River Jim -- Iris Allan

5.34 I Remember Peace River Jim -- Tom Inkster

5.35 A half-century engaged in fur trading in north -- W. Fletcher Bredin

5.36 Frank Beatton, the bridge between fur and farm .... -- Dorthea Calverley

5.37 Frank Beatton -- from the Beaver magazine

5.38 Personalities of the Peace - Frank Beatton -- J.L. Ruxton

5.39 Orkneyman knew the Peace River -- Noel Robinson

5.40 "Nigger Dan" at Fort St. John -- W.E. Butler

5.41 The Death of "Nigger Dan" -- Nigel E. Hannaford

5.42 Alexander Monkman - miner, trader, trapper, etc. -- Dorthea Calverley

5.43 Discoverer of Monkman Pass -- from Grande Prairie Herald

5.44 Discoverers of the Monkman Pass -- Dorthea Calverley

5.45 Tom Kerr, a mighty fur trader was he -- David T. Williamson

5.46 Breaking up of the ice on the Peace River

5.47 Babiche Land -- G. Lewis

5.48 Fort Nelson fur heist (1936) -- W.L. Ostlund

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	TITLE OR DESCRIPTION

Chapter 1	The Foundations of the Fur Trade
1.01	The Beaver, the foundation of the Fur Trade -- Dorthea Calverley
1.02	The Voyageurs, the backbone of the Fur Trade -- Dorthea Calverley
1.03	Do you understand Canadian? -- Alberta Heritage Magazine
1.04	Unknown Explorers -- Royal Bank of Canada monthly letter, September 1979.

Chapter 2	The Founders of the Great Fur Trade Companies
2.01	Groseillier and Radisson -- Dorthea Calverley
2.02	A Tercentenary map of the Hudson's Bay Company Trading Posts -- Beaver magazine
2.03	Simon McTavish, head of the NorthWest Company -- Dorthea Calverley
2.04	Simon McTavish of the NorthWest Company -- Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

Chapter 3	The Fur Trade Enters the Peace River Country

3.01	Hudson's Bay Company in the Peace River District -- Beaver magazine
3.02	Prehistoric Trails -- Dorthea Calverley
3.03	The Isolated Peace River Country -- Dorthea Calverley
3.04	Peter Pond, Methye Portage and the First Northern Alberta Trading Post -- DH Calverley
3.05	Peter Pond and the Athabasca Country -- Dorthea Calverley
3.07	The Peace River and Sir Alexander Mackenzie -- Dorthea Calverley
3.08	Alexander Mackenzie to the Pacific -- Dorthea Calverley
3.09	William Tomison, Pioneer of the Fur Trade -- Dorthea Calverley
3.10	John Finlay and Fort St. John -- Dorthea Calverley
3.11	Excerpts from the Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
3.12	David Thompson puts the Peace River country on the map -- Dorthea Calverley
3.13	David Thompson under scrutiny -- Hugh A. Dempsey
3.14	David Thompson on the Peace River, Part II -- Hugh A. Dempsey
3.15	David Thompson on the Peace River, Part III -- Hugh A. Dempsey
3.16	Simon Fraser and Rocky Mt Portage House (Hudson's Hope) -- Dorthea Calverley
3.17	Simon Fraser and our southern link to the sea -- Dorthea Calverley
3.18	Simon Fraser -- Dorthea Calverley
3.19	Roderick Mackenzie who held the fort for Alexander -- Dorthea Calverley
3.20	A.N. McLeod and the Shaftesbury Trail -- Dorthea Calverley
3.21	John Clarke and the Lesser Slave Lake Trail -- Dorthea Calverley
3.22	Samuel Black, unknown explorer of the Finlay River -- Dorthea Calverley
3.23	James Murray Yale & the first HBCo post in the BC Peace -- Dorthea Calverley
3.24	Sir George Simpson & the union of the two great companies -- Dorthea Calverley
3.25	Gov. Simpson in the Peace River Canyon & on the Assiniboine Trail -- D.H. Calverley
3.26	Map of Peace River showing some early trading posts
3.27	Mishap on the way to Lake Athabaska -- David Thompson

Chapter 4	Life in a Fur Trade Post

4.01	Life in a Fur Trade Post (with photographs) -- Dorthea Calverley
4.02	Role of a Trader's wife with Indian customers, 1900's -- Hudson Hope Museum
4.03	Life of a Factor or post manager in the early fur trade -- Dorthea Calverley
4.04	Costume of the fur trade post Factor -- Father A.G. Morice, OMI
4.05	Portrait of Chief Factor John Rowand -- H.E. Rawlinson
4.06	Reminiscences of a HBCo Factor -- H.J. Moberly
4.07	Comic relief in the fur trade story -- Dorthea Calverley
4.08	Old-time company tactics -- Rosanna Seaborn
4.09	Men of the Hudson's Bay -- contributed by Jean W. Godsell
4.10	Trapline Tale -- George Hunter
4.11	Fur Trade in the early days fraught with many dangers
4.12	HBCo Motto, "Pro Pelle Cutem" -- two translations
4.13	Bargaining with the Factor
4.14	Literacy, literature and libraries in the fur trade -- M. Payne and G. Thomas

Chapter 5	Fur Trade Posts in the Peace River Country & related articles

5.01	Old forts and travellers in the Peace River -- BC Archives
5.02	Summary of some Peace Country forts
5.03	The Beaver Hudson's Bay Company posts -- George Pendleton
5.04	Rowand was strongman in HBCo's empire -- Dr. Ross Mitchell
5.05	Importance of Fort Edmonton in the fur trade -- W.D. Clark
5.06	Christmas holidays at the fort -- Peter Erasmus
5.07	The marks of time -- Hilda Ross
5.08	The broad axe -- Hilda Ross
5.09	Notes on Fort Edmonton -- from the Edmonton Journal
5.10	Restoring an original fur fort (Fort St. James) -- Canada Press
5.11	Fort Chipewyan - on the edge of history -- John. J. Chalmers
5.12	Emporium of the North -- Guy H. Blanchet
5.13	The fur war strategy, a story of old Fort Chipewyan -- J. H. Mosgrove
5.14	Fort St John -- from the Beaver magazine
5.15	The names of Fort St. John -- Finola Finlay
5.16	Fort St. John -- Finola Finlay
5.17	Fort George [Prince George] -- BC Archives & Alberta Archives
5.18	Hudson's Hope -- from the Beaver magazine
5.20	Dunvegan -- from the Beaver magazine and from Margaret Loggie
5.21	Founding Fort Nelson -- W. Cornwallis King as told to Mary Weekes
5.22	Farthest north farming at Rose Prairie trading post
5.23	Yale's House -- Dorthea Calverley
5.24	Dunlevy - Twelve Mile Creek
5.25	Dunlevy and Davis break the Bay's monopoly -- Dorthea Calverley
5.26	Twelve Foot Davis and associates in the tradition of enterprise -- Dorthea Calverley
5.27	Trapper-prospector Albert Faille, northerner extraordinary -- Dorthea Calverley
5.28	Henry John Moberly and the sportsman's paradise tradition -- Dorthea Calverley
5.29	Sheridan Lawrence, the agricultural tradition -- Dorthea Calverley
5.30	Pete Toy -- J.C. Bryant and Dorthea Calverley
5.31	"Peace River Jim" (Col. J.K. Cornwall) -- Dorthea Calverley
5.32	"Apostle of the Peace" from the Grande Prairie Herald
5.33	Peace River Jim -- Iris Allan
5.34	I Remember Peace River Jim -- Tom Inkster
5.35	A half-century engaged in fur trading in north -- W. Fletcher Bredin
5.36	Frank Beatton, the bridge between fur and farm .... -- Dorthea Calverley
5.37	Frank Beatton -- from the Beaver magazine
5.38	Personalities of the Peace - Frank Beatton -- J.L. Ruxton
5.39	Orkneyman knew the Peace River -- Noel Robinson
5.40	"Nigger Dan" at Fort St. John -- W.E. Butler
5.41	The Death of "Nigger Dan" -- Nigel E. Hannaford
5.42	Alexander Monkman - miner, trader, trapper, etc. -- Dorthea Calverley
5.43	Discoverer of Monkman Pass -- from Grande Prairie Herald
5.44	Discoverers of the Monkman Pass -- Dorthea Calverley
5.45	Tom Kerr, a mighty fur trader was he -- David T. Williamson
5.46	Breaking up of the ice on the Peace River
5.47	Babiche Land -- G. Lewis
5.48	Fort Nelson fur heist (1936) -- W.L. Ostlund