Research material on Grand Portage, [ca. 1710]-[ca. 1930].

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Research material on Grand Portage, [ca. 1710]-[ca. 1930].

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Transcripts and excerpts from published sources (213 p., typed) dealing with the establishment, construction, and eventual abandonment of the North West Company's fur trading post at Grand Portage on the north shore of Lake Superior. They were compiled in ca. 1938 in conjunction with the reconstruction of the post, and include descriptions of other posts in the Lake Superior region.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Hudson's Bay Company

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The Hudson's Bay Company began in 1670, and by the 1820s it had expanded to the Pacific Northwest. John McLoughlin served as the head of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia district. In this position, which McLoughlin held for twenty-one years, he oversaw the company's operations throughout the entire Pacific Northwest. Researching the role Dr. McLoughlin played in the history of the Hudson's Bay Company were Robert C. Clark and Burt B. Barker. Both were historians at the University of Oregon wh...

North West Company

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Beeson, Lewis 1901- ., comp.

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