The Hudson's Bay Company's Monopoly of the Fur Trade at the Red River Settlement, 1821-1850

ISBN: 9781334221729 出版年：2016 页码：16 Chester Martin Forgotten Books

The old directorate thus escaped the responsibility; the oflicials at Hudson's Bay discovered with dismay that Selkirk's influence was paramount, and that after the grant of Assiniboia to him in 1811, no covert opposition to the settlers, nor direct protest to Selkirk in person, could stay the attempt to establish a colony in the West. Auld.