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Title: The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay Company. New pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936
Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company Northwest, Canadian Hudson Bay -- History
Publisher: New York Outing Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the sardonic NorWesters smilingin triumph. These were some of the ways by whichthe NorWesters dissuaded rivals from invadingthe Pays (Ten Haul. On their part, they probablyjustified their course by arguing that rivalry wouldat once lead to such murders as those in the Atha-basca. In their secret councils, they well knew thatthey were keeping small rivals from the field to befree for the fight against the greatest rival of all—the Hudsons Bay Company. Footnote to Chapter XX.—The contents of this chapter aretaken primarily from the records of the Hudsons Bay House;secondarily, from the Journals of the NorWest partners aspublished by Senator Masson, Prof. Coues, and others; also,and most important, from such old missionary annals as thoseof the Oblates and other missionaries like Abbe Dugas, Tass<$,Grandin, Provencher and others. In the most of cases, themissionary writer was not himself the actor (there are two ex-ceptions to this) but he was in direct contact with the living 408
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The Coming of the Pedlars actor and took his facts on the spot, so that his testimony iseven more non-partisan than the carefully edited Masson essayand records. I consider these various missionary legends themost authentic source of the history of the period, though theirevidence is most damning to both sides. These annals are ex-clusively published by Catholic organizations and so unfor-tunately do not reach the big public of which they are deserving. The exact way in which the N. W. C. was formed, I foundvery involved in the Masson essay. A detailed account of allsteps in the organization is very plainly given in the petitionsof the Frobisher Brothers, Peter Pond and McGill to Gov. Haldi-mand for a monopoly of the fur trade. The petitions are in theCanadian Archives. A curious fear is revealed in all these peti-tions—that the Americans may reach and possess the PacificCoast first. As a matter of fact that is exactly what Grey andLewis and Clarke did in the Oregon region. From the

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