Many tender ties : women in fur-trade society in Western Canada, 1670-1870

Summary: "Sexual encounters between Indian women and the fur traders of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies are generally thought to have been casual and illicit in nature. This illuminating book reveals instead that Indian-white marriages, sanctioned "after the custom of the country", resulted in many warm and enduring family unions. These were profoundly altered by the coming of white women in the 1820s and 1830s. Among the women are Thanadelthur, the spirited Chipewyan who led an expedition from York Factory into the Barren Grounds; Isabel Gunn, the Orkney lass who signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company disguised as a boy; Marie Anne Lajimoiere, the first white woman to make a permanent home in the West, and beautiful Sara Ballenden, the tragic part-Indian wife of Chief Factor John Ballenden." -- Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 189623951X (pbk.)
ISBN: 0806118474 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0920486088 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0920486061
ISBN: 9781896239514 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780806118475 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780920486085 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780920486061
Physical Description: 303 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Winnipeg, Man. : Watson & Dwyer, [1980 or 1981]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revision of the author's Ph.D. thesis--University of London, England, 1975.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Enter the white man -- The custom of the country -- "Your honors servants" -- Women in between -- "Daughters of the country" -- My only consolation -- "Quite English in her manner" -- "Lovely tender exotics" -- A question of blood -- "A world we have lost"