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The Fort George Murders of 1823 Crisis and Coexistence in New Caledonia | 29.64 MB
Title: The Fort George Murders of 1823
Author: Geoff Mynett
Category: Nonfiction, History, Canada, Americas
Language: English | 246 Pages | ISBN: 9781773861913
Description:
In 1823, a series of violent events in northern British Columbia shattered the fragile trading relationship between the local Indigenous community and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). In The Fort George Murders , best-selling author and historian Geoff Mynett delves deep into the HBC's documentation about this exceptional period in BC history. Writers later in the century took the HBC stories and added invented details and imagined motivation like layers of paint and grime over an old painting. Unfortunately, there are few written records from the Indigenous point of view. With a keen and curious sensitivity, Mynett examines the records, always bearing in mind the likelihood of conscious or unconscious bias of the writers.
With the murder of two HBC workers following a situation rooted in personal relationships and complicated by tensions between the Indigenous and the settler communities, the future of New Caledonia's trading district was thrown into crisis. Mynett...
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