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Article: Michael Payne, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History.
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- Manitoba History
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- October 1, 2008
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Michael Payne, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History
Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 2004, 96 pages.
ISBN 9781550288438, $24.95 (paperback).
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As Michael Payne observes in his introduction, it is not easy to summarize over 500 years of fur trade history: Payne makes the job even more challenging by giving himself less than 100 pages in which to do it. What he has produced is like a platter of historical hors d'oeuvres, a collection of tasty tidbits that leave us wanting more.
Payne has approached the history of the fur trade from many angles, having taught high school history, earned a PhD, and ...