Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. FIGURES AND TABLES ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Preface xv
6. 1. Does the fur trade have a future? 1
7. 2. Laying the groundwork for government involvement, 1870-1885 30
8. 3. The fur trade in transition, 1886-1913 50
9. 4. The turning point: the impact of the First World War on the northern fur trade 96
10. 5. The international marketing of Canadian furs, 1920-1945 113
11. 6. The struggle for dominance in the Canadian north during the 1920s 139
12. 7. Attempts to revitalize the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trade Department, 1920-1945 171
13. 8. The native people, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the state in the industrial fur trade, 1920-1945 199
14. 9. The decline of the old order 222
15. NOTES 229
16. APPENDIX Figure references and data notes 257
17. Picture credits 260
18. Bibliography 261
19. Index 273