foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. As the primary producers of furs for the commercial trade …, Indigenous peoples laboured in an exploitative system designed to benefit the companies. Yet the realities of the fur trade also … bare the myths of pre-Confederation adventuring and the cruel reality of early settler-colonialism in Canada."-- …

resources, industrializations, and international trade. This volume, a standard in the field since its initial publication in … wheat economy; the growth of organized labour; and twentieth-century patterns of investment and trade. The focus throughout … in Canada. …