Northern Trader [H. S. M. Kemp]

Kemp, H. S. M.

Toronto, ON, 1956

By The Ryerson Press
$29.00 USD
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Hardcover with dust jacket, 253 pages, 5.25x8.25 in. [13.5x20.5 cm.].
Condition

Private school achievement presentation label, completed and signed by the student's teacher, affixed to the blank front endpaper. Edges lightly stained. Front board with light staining. Dust jacket moisture-stained, torn, chipped, creased, rubbed, sunned, and worn at the extremities.
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Memoir of the northern fur trade by H.S.M. Kemp (1892–1984), who came to the Canadian Northwest from England as a youth and entered the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company at sixteen before joining its principal competitor, Revillon Frères. Drawing on his years at remote trading posts across northern Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories, Kemp recounts travel by canoe, dog team, and snowshoe, the operation of trading posts, and daily life in the closing years of the traditional fur trade. The narrative includes observations on northern landscapes, Indigenous communities, trapping, transportation, and the relationships between traders and the people among whom they lived and worked.
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