Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Memoir of Fur Trade, Arctic Travel, and Frontier Life in Northern CanadaBy Philip Henry Godsell
Length11h 36m
About this audiobook
Arctic Trader is a vivid memoir of service with the Hudson's Bay Company, recounting two decades of travel, trade, endurance, and cross-cultural encounter in Canada's northern territories. Written in a direct yet evocative documentary style, the book belongs to the tradition of exploration and fur-trade narratives, combining practical observation with adventure. Godsell records the rhythms of post life, winter journeys, Indigenous knowledge, commercial routines, and the severe beauty of the Arctic environment with the authority of lived experience. Philip Henry Godsell was himself a Hudson's Bay Company man, and his narrative is shaped by long residence in remote districts rather than by second-hand romance. His career placed him at the intersection of empire, commerce, and northern Indigenous communities during a period when the old fur-trade world was changing under modern economic and administrative pressures. That background gives the book both immediacy and historical value. Readers interested in Canadian history, Arctic exploration, colonial commerce, or memoirs of frontier life will find Arctic Trader especially rewarding. It offers not merely adventure, but a textured account of a distinctive northern world.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length11 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 8, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Arctic Trader--the account of twenty years with the Hudson's Bay Company
3INTRODUCTION
4FOREWORD
5ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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6CHAPTER I Icebergs and Polar Bears
7CHAPTER II The Ways of Chief Factor McTavish
8CHAPTER III The Medicine Murder at Sandy Lake
9CHAPTER IV The Christmas Gathering at Norway House
10CHAPTER V I Am Banished to Pepekwatooce
11CHAPTER VI By Portage, Lake and River
12CHAPTER VII Trailing the Killers of Sap-Was-Te
13CHAPTER VIII The Weetigo of Pepekwatooce
14CHAPTER IX The White Lights
15CHAPTER X Stage, Steamer and Pack-Train
16CHAPTER XI The Untamed Beaver Indians
17CHAPTER XII The Fur Smugglers
18CHAPTER XIII “Contraband” of the Forests
19CHAPTER XIV The Peace Pipe at the Stone Fort
20CHAPTER XV The Gathering of the Factors
21CHAPTER XVI Over Mackenzie’s Trail to the Polar Sea
22CHAPTER XVII In Topsy-Turvy Land
23CHAPTER XVIII Corporal Doak Talks of the Cogmollocks
24CHAPTER XIX The Corporal Follows His Last Trail
25CHAPTER XX A Bride Comes to the Northland
26CHAPTER XXI The Land of the Nunatagmuits
27CHAPTER XXII The Stone-Age People
28CHAPTER XXIII Extending Canada’s Frozen Frontier
29CHAPTER XXIV The Winter Trail Across the Rockies
30CHAPTER XXV The Nearing North
31APPENDIX
32I. FUR PRODUCTION OF CANADA SEASON 1929-1930
33II. PRESENT STATE OF THE MUSK-OX AND ESTIMATE OF NUMBERS
34III. THE CARIBOU
35IV. MINERAL DISCOVERIES IN THE MACKENZIE RIVER AREA AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
36V. THE ABORIGINES
37Memorable Quotes
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