The Journal of John Work. January to October, 1835. With an introduction and notes by Henry Drummond Dee. Archives of British Columbia, Memoir X.
Victoria, B.C. Printed by Charles F. Banfield. 1945. tall8vo, 24.5cm, 98p., frontis portrait & 3 plates, appendices, original tan linen, bevelled boards, spine and cover titles stamped in black, a fine as new copy. (wst). Item #42598
Strathern 621. T.P.L. 5069. Edited from the original ms. In the B.C. Archives. The journal records a fur-trading cruise in the brig Lama up the northwest coast from Fort Vancouver. Work made his headquarters at Fort Simpson and traded from Alaska to the north end of Vancouver Island. - "This journal is an unusually informative record of maritime fur-trading undertaken by the Hudson's Bay Company. It tells of the competition between the American fur traders and the servants of the Company and the liguor traffic amongst the Indians which resulted. It shows, too, the dangers which traders faced on the Northwest Pacific Coast from the Haida Indians". TPL.
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