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'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company.

SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). This article focuses on how Metis family structures in the English River District molded the contours of the community's relationship with the HBC in the 19th century. More specifically, only certain families established a relationship with the Company, wherein male servants and their extended families laboured for the HBC in return for wages and/or access to Company resources. The Company's willingness to ...

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