Series - Publications about the North West Company | McCord Museum

Series

Publications about the North West Company

Date 1811-1818

Dimensions2 textual records

ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Other Documents

Object NumberC104/G

CollectionMcCord

Credit This digitization was realized as part of the Canadian National Heritage Digitization Strategy thanks to the generous support of a private donor

Scope and Content

This series contains a monograph and an article from a periodical that document the history and public image of the North West Company in 1811 and 1818. The monograph, published in London in 1811 and entitled On the Origin and Progress of the North-West Company of Canada [...], discusses the efforts of the North West Company and its supporters to justify its economic model to the British government. The article, entitled Lord Selkirk and the North West Company, was published in 1818 in an unknown Canadian periodical. It recounts the legal disputes between the company and Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk.

Notes

Source of title: Based on the contents of the series.

Language: The documents are in English.

Last Update: July 23, 2019

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