The Canadian Northwest in 1811: a study in the historical geography of the old northwest of the fur trade on the eve of the first agricultural settlement

• Main Author: Ross, Eric DeWitt
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 1962
• Subjects: Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2019 Block 22; Fort William; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Hudson Strait; York Factory; Lake Athabasca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33766

The fur traders of 1811 saw the Northwest as three distinct regions: New South Wales [Hudson Bay Lowlands], the Stony Region [C'anadian Shield] and the Great [Interiorj Plains. To them, the least important of these was New South Wales which was by then functioning primarily as a base from which...