Hudson's Bay company
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alternative: The gentlemen adventurers
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Pinkerton, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1882-1970
issued: 2018-11-13
issued: 1931
description: "Bibliography: pp.350-357. A popular history. Also published under the title The Hudson's Bay Company in New York by Henry Holt & Co. in 1931 and in London by Thornton Butterworth in 1932."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 238
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extent: viii, 357 pages : photographs, tables ; 22 cm.
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note: INTRODUCTION I Ordinary history conveys information; extraordinary history [onveys understanding. The understanding must, of course, be |>ased on information, which is why the industry of chroniclers is lo valuable. [■Unfortunately the capacity to understand is none too common. I place is too often taken by personal prejudice, for or against. Irhe result then is what we might call an historical legend. We lire not particular enough in our examination of sources to distinguish between those that are genuinely such, and those that but repeat an error merely because it is to be found in early print. Irhus one quotes from the other in long succession, each repetition [lending its strength, until at last the legend has taken the solidity lof indisputable fact. To trace the pedigree of accepted incident, point of view, or Ipersonal evaluation is fascinating business; and very laborious. lOne can never be satisfied merely with finding a quotable "authority." It is necessary further to enquire where the authority got his stuff. If he is an erudite authority properly addicted to footnotes or appendices, that is easy: but if he is merely a discursive authority we must cast our net through all of antedating literature that might have a remote connection with the subject. It is not sufficient to confine ourselves merely to the historical section. Many an early chronicler, with a nice discrimination for the picturesque, has lifted an incident from pure fiction wherewith to render more sprightly his dullness; and if he has been an I early enough chronicler to rate the title of "source," has been quoted there-anent with confidence by all who come after. That is how a very great deal of history has been written, and |that is why the body of history offers such a wide field of exploration and reappraisal. It was originally charted in the grand old manner, with pictures of dolphins and strange beasts and spouting whales, and exotic islands and treasure coves, and reefs and vi INTRODU…
note: Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15517645
has type: Books
identifier: FC3207 .P56 1931A
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0373625
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Koerner Library. FC3207 .P56 1931A
subject: Hudson's Bay Company
subject: North West Company
subject: Fur trade--Canada
subject: Northwest, Canadian--History
type: Text