Description
Book Description
Elizabeth Briggs and Anne Morton have written a new guide to this major international and genealogical resource. Volume One focuses on the fur trade. Volume Two has a wider range, which includes settlers, sailors, store clerks – and more on the fur trade! The two hundred and ten page book contains eighty illustrations taken from documents at the Archives. Topics discussed in this book include:
- The Red River Settlers;
- Settlers who went to the Pacific Northwest;
- Miners who emigrated from Staffordshire to Nanaimo;
- Labourers who emigrated from Dorset to the west coast;
- Private records and undelivered letters to employees;
- Records of the London Office Staff;
- Records of Canadian Office Staff;
- Records relating to employees working in stores;
- Records of employees in Land Departments and Wholesale Departments
- Personnel files;
- Mackenzie River Transport System and employee records;
- Workers involved in Ships and Shipping;
- Ships’ Log Books, employee reports, illness and death at sea;
- ‘French Government Records’ [First World War shipping business];
- Fur Buyers, Fur Brokers and Fur Traders;
- Shares and Shareholders, Transfer of Shares; Powers of Attorney; Estate Records;
- Employees who served in the First and Second World Wars;
- Employees who qualified for long service medals;
- Staff newsletters;
- Index to fifteen hundred names of people connected with the Red River Settlement extracted from Archer Martin and George Bryce; 1827 Red River Census Index, others…
- Glossary, Index & Bibliography
About the Author(s)
Elizabeth Briggs and Anne Morton
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