Title George Cartwright's The Labrador companion / edited by Marianne P. Stopp

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; George Cartwrightâ#x80;#x99;s The Labrador Companion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index Summary "New manuscripts directly related to Canada's history rarely come to light. The Labrador Companion, written in 1810 by Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), and discovered in 2013, is a fascinating and unusual find because of its level of detail, its setting in a hardly studied part of Britain's fur-trade empire, and because it is a personal account rather than a trade outfit ledger or government document."-- Provided by publisher "This annotated edition transcribes The Labrador Companion in full. Cartwright documented the everyday work of Labrador's particular kind of fur-trade life based on his experiences operating a series of merchant stations in southern Labrador between 1770 and 1786. Although his focus is firmly on instruction in the manifold ways of capturing animals, he also provides rare glimpses of Innu and Inuit life as well as of housekeeping and gardening. The Labrador Companion includes a lengthy description of Labrador's fauna--of land, sea, and air--that accounts among Canada's earliest natural history writing based on first-hand observation. A revealing account of fur-trade-era technology, methods, and materials, conveyed through one man's acquired knowledge and skills, The Labrador Companion gives a close-to-the-ground picture of the resource industries that were at the heart of British, and French, colonial presence in the Canadian northeast."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Cartwright, George, 1739-1819. SUBJECT Cartwright, George, 1739-1819 fast Subject Fur traders -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 18th century Fur trade -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 18th century Frontier and pioneer life -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador Hunting -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 18th century Natural history -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador Inuit -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- Canada -- General. Frontier and pioneer life Fur trade Fur traders Hunting Inuit Natural history Indigenes Volk Natur Pelzhandel Siedler SUBJECT Labrador (N.L.) -- History -- 18th century Subject Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Stopp, Marianne P, editor ISBN 9780773548398 0773548394 9780773548404 0773548408

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