Journal of Occurrences in the Athabasca Department by George Simpson, 1820 and 1821, and Report

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Author: George Simpson (c1792-1860) edited by E E "Edwin Ernest" Rich Year: 1938 Publisher: The Champlain Society for the Hudson's Bay Record Place: Toronto Description: lix+498+xiii pages with frontispiece, tables, appendixes 4 folding maps in rear pocket and index. Royal octavo (9 ½" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Publications of the Champlain Society, Hudson Bay Company Series Number 1. Number 294 of 550 copies. First Edition. The first volume of the Hudson’s Bay Company Series is a verbatim transcription of the complete text of Simpson’s “Report and Journal,” supported by notes and appendices. It documents a “golden age” of the company under this indomitable governor, who had left Montreal by canoe in 1820 to reach the Athabasca Department. In 1821, the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company amalgamated under the HBC charter. Writes Chester Martin in his introduction: “This remarkable journal of a very remarkable man was written at a juncture in the fortunes of the Hudson’s Bay Company which gives it an historical interest out of all proportion to its intrinsic value as a chapter in the technique of the fur trade.” It is also significant for “the light which it throws upon the deadly rivalry, then at its worst, between the Hudson’s Bay and North West Companies.” George Simpson was a Scottish explorer and colonial governor of the Hudson's Bay Company during the period of its greatest power. From 1820 to 1860, he was in

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