Sir John A. Macdonald Prize awarded for her book French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest. In it, she explores the influence that French Canadians and their Indigenous partners had in the making of the Pacific Northwest during the 19th through the 21st centuries.
In addition to its commercial importance, the creation of a fur-trade radio network in the 1930s brought far-reaching changes to the lives of Northern residents.
Book review: With so many stories of the men whose names still adorn the buildings and mark the streets of Winnipeg’s Exchange District, Thinking Big feels at times like a guided historical tour through the area. Jim Blanchard’s book is most definitely a story of men and their businesses, but it’s also a very readable history of Winnipeg’s evolution from the early days of the fur trade up to the 1940s.
Doug Sinclair and Eduard Buckman, the film crew for Fur Country, struggle with the terrain, which delays their arrival in Moose Factory until Christmas afternoon.
