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Alexander Kennedy Isbister : A Respectable Critic of the Honourable Company - Volume 143

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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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0886290643 / 9780886290641
Paperback / softback
971.201
15/01/1988
United States
343 pages
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