Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans; in the years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country. Illustrated with maps ...
"Binder's title: Travels in North America. Two pages of errata bound in at end of text. The introductory history of the fur trade has been attributed by J.B. Tyrrell to Roderick McKenzie. Alexander Mackenzie's two exploratory expeditions from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca, the firs...
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London : T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, Corbett and Morgan, W. Creech, R. Noble, Old-Bailey
2016
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0224053 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0224053 |
| Summary: | "Binder's title: Travels in North America. Two pages of errata bound in at end of text. The introductory history of the fur trade has been attributed by J.B. Tyrrell to Roderick McKenzie. Alexander Mackenzie's two exploratory expeditions from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca, the first from June to September, 1789, down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic, the second to the Pacific via the Peace and Fraser Rivers, from October, 1792 to August, 1793, were compiled from Mackenzie's notes by William Combe, ref. D.N.B. Contents: pp[iii]-viii. Preface.- pp[i]-cxxxii. [McKenzie, R.] A general history of the fur trade from Canada to the northwest [including detailed accounts of the Knisteneaux, Algonquin and Chepewyan [!] tongues] - PP.1-119. Journal of a voyage, &c.- pp [121]-397. Journal of a second voyage, &c. -PP.397-412. [Short geographical view of the country] -PP[413-414] Errata."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to ... |
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