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Article: North-West Company: frontier merchants.
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- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Florida Town, The North-West Company: Frontier Merchants. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1999. 120 pp. Illus. ISBN 1-895642-42-6.
The North West Company: Frontier Merchants is a commissioned history. Earl Boon, a former vice-president of the company "conceived the idea for this book and made it happen" and the Company financed the project. The author, Florida Town, is a journalist with a number of books written for the school curriculum to her credit. The book traces an enterprise that began with a loose network of individuals who united as the North West Company (NWC). After just over forty remarkable years as an independent corporation it was absorbed into the fold ...