Hudson's Bay Company Edmonton House journals : reports from the Saskatchewan district, including the Bow River Expedition, 1821-1826

Summary: This book of journals follows upon and is a continuation of Hudson's Bay Company: Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports, 1806-1821, edited with an Introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens. The authors of the journals were officers of the Hudson's Bay Company. They include Anthony Feistel (n.d.s), Richard Grant (c.1794-1862), Duncan Finlayson (1795-1862), John Rowand (1787-1854), Colin Robertson (1783-1840), Donald McKenzie Jr. (1787-1850), George Simpson (1787-1860), and Francis Heron (1784-1840). The journals and accompanying reports reveal a wealth of information about western Canada during the 1820s, including the operation of the fur trade, Aboriginal cultures, and Aboriginal relations between different nations and Euro-Canadian and Métis cultures. The journal writers were based mainly at Edmonton House, but the commentaries concern all of the region between the Bow and North Saskatchewan Rivers, east to Fort Carleton, and west to the Rocky Mountains. Virtually all Aboriginal First Nations are described.