Canadian Wilds

Each summer, two ships carried supplies into Hudson Bay—and the only letters from home. If storm or shoals kept them from shore, the winterers faced more than a lonely season.

In the vast Canadian wilderness, the Hudson’s Bay Company followed rivers inland, raising trading posts where hunters brought in their furs. Martin Hunter draws on two decades with the Company to describe its trade with Indigenous hunters and trappers, the hard work of survival, and the red flag that marked its growing reach. But the Company’s claims collided with those of the rival Northwest Company, turning the fur trade into a fierce struggle in which posts could change hands overnight. What did it take to live—and trade—beyond the reach of ordinary law?

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