North of Athabasca [electronic resource] : Slave Lake and Mackenzie River documents of the North West Company, 1800-1821 / edited with an introduction by Lloyd Keith.
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BookSeries: Rupert's Land Record Society series: Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001Description: xviii, 504 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): North West Company -- History -- Sources | North West Company -- Biography | North West Company -- Histoire -- Sources | North West Company -- Biographies | North West Company. -- History -- Sources | North West Company. -- History | Fur trade -- Northwest Territories -- Great Slave Lake Region -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Fur trade -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River Region -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Indigenous peoples -- Northwest Territories -- Great Slave Lake Region -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Indigenous peoples -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River Region -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Fourrures -- Commerce -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest -- Esclaves, R�egion du Grand lac des -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle -- Sources | Fourrures -- Commerce -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest -- Mackenzie, R�egion du -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle -- Sources | Autochtones -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest -- Esclaves, R�egion du Grand lac des -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle -- Sources | Autochtones -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest -- Mackenzie, R�egion du -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle -- Sources | Northwest Territories -- Biography | Great Slave Lake Region (N.W.T.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Mackenzie River Region (N.W.T.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Territoires du Nord-Ouest -- Biographies | Esclaves, R�egion du Grand lac des (T.N.-O.) -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle -- Sources | Mackenzie, R�egion du (T.N.-O.) -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle -- Sources | Great Slave Lake (N.W.T.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Mackenzie River (N.W.T.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Northwest Territories -- GenealogyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 971.9/201 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-488) and index.
Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: OVERVIEW I -- Historical Background 3 -- The Distant Past 3 -- The Recent Past 6 -- The North West Company 9 -- Slave Lake District, 1786-99 13 -- Mackenzie RiverDistrict, 1795-1800 14 -- James Porter'sJournal, 1800-1 18 -- John Thomson'sJournal, 1800-1 22 -- Arrival of Opposition in Athabasca, 1 8o-4' 26 -- EarlyJournals ofW.F. Wentzel, 1802-5 31 -- Alexander McKenzie'sJournal, 1805-6 37 -- Alexander HenryJr'sJournal, 18o6 41 -- George Keith'sJournals, 1805-7 43 -- W.F. Wentzel'sJournals, 1805-o8 53 -- Declining Returns from the Mackenzie, 1807-15 57 -- Roderic McKenzie Correspondence, 1807-24 58 -- Aftermath, 1816-21 66 -- Wentzel's "Account of Mackenzies River with a Chart," -- 1821 70 -- Conclusions 76 -- PART TWO: -- NORTH WEST COMPANY DOCUMENTS 81 -- James Porter's Slave LakeJournal of 1800-1 83 -- John Thomson'sJournal of 1800-1 126 -- W.F. Wentzel'sJournals of 1802 and 1804-5 157 -- Alexander McKenzie'sJournal of 1805-6 207 -- Alexander Henry, Jr'sJournal of 1806 252 -- George Keith'sJournals of 1805-6 and 1806-7 259 -- W.F. Wentzel'sJournals and "Account of Mackenzies River," -- 1805-21 288 -- Biographical Notes, Mackenzie River and Slave Lake -- Districts, 1795-1821 365 -- Glossary 451 -- Notes 457 -- Bibliography 479 -- Index 489.
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