Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Photographic Credits viii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Preface xi
6. The Backgrounds and Antecedents of the British Traders 1
7. Company Men with a Difference: The London and Montreal Britishers 23
8. Company Men and Native Women in Hudson Bay 51
9. North West Company Men and Native Women 81
10. Gentlemen of 1821: New Directions in Fur Trade Social Life 111
11. Different Loyalties: Sexual and Marital Relationships of Company Officers after 1821 131
12. Fur Trade Parents and Children before 1821 153
13. Patterns and Problems of “Placing”: Company Offspring in Britain and Canada after 1821 177
14. Fur Trade Sons and Daughters in a New Company Context 199
15. References 221
16. Index 239