The audacious Montreal rival that out-paddled the Bay men to the Athabasca, the Mackenzie, and the Pacific.
Ruinous competition and the 1816 Seven Oaks bloodshed forced a forced marriage: the company was absorbed into the Hudson's Bay Company on 26 March 1821.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for North West Company — the shape you scrub through changes in 1779 · 1796 · 1811.
Campbell's popular narrative of the Montreal-based North West Company, its Nor'Westers, and the 1821 merger with the HBC.
The classic economic study of the Canadian fur trade and its competing companies (broad foundational work).