The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict and Perilous Journeys of the Fur Trade

A lively recounting of the tough men and heroic but overworked packhorses who broke open BC to the big business of the 19th century fur trade. Facing a grueling thousand-mile trail, the brigades of the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) pushed onward over mountains and through ferocious river crossings to reach the isolated fur-trading posts. But it wasn’ t just the landscape the brigades faced, as First Nations people struggled with the desire to resist, or assist, the fur company’ s attempts to bui...