Born of mixed Scottish/Native Indian blood in what is now Saskatchewan, Isbister emigrated to Britain after he found his ambitions thwarted by Hudson's Bay Company policies regarding native-born employees. There he became a respected educator, but more important to this study, he also became the most persistent critic of the Company, and of British and Canadian policies dealing with the inhabitants of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories.
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A Respectable Critic of the Honourable Company

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ISBN
9780773573529
Published
2021
Publisher
ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
Language
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok

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