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Article: Embattled notions: constructions of Rupert's Land's native sons, 1760 to 1860. *.(children of native women and European traders working for the Hudson's Bay Company in the late18th century and early 19th century )
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- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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The children produced as a result of the cohabitation of European traders and Aboriginal women were the ultimate expression of transcultural relations. They were living witnesses to the intimate nature of this complex encounter and a pivotal point upon which thorny matters of race, class and gender were brought to the fore. In Rupert's Land beginning in the 1760s, a few sons of the families of `Bay men' entered apprenticeships in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). The `Lists of Servants' and `Servants' Contracts' beginning about 1775, designated these sons as `natives of Hudson Bay' or `natives of Rupert's Land' to indicate their place of birth. (1) Prior to ...
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