Author: Hudson's Bay Company (Dafoe, Christopher, ed. with Carol Preston, associate ed. and Alex Kachur et al)
Title: The Beaver, Exploring Canada's History, August/September 1995
Description: Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1995. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Fishing on the Souris, by Marion E. Barker. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe:Annals of The Beaver; Colours of the Farm - A boy's life on a prairie farm between the wars by Donald Lamont; Fuel for the Home Fires - Taking care of the women they left behind, 1914-1918 by Desmond Morton and Cheryl Smith; Louis Slotin and the Invisible Killer - The tragedy of a Canadian scientist and the A-bomb by Martin Zeilig; Tyrant of the Ottawa Valley - Planting the Clan McNab in colonial Canada by Bernard Shaw; North with the Red River Brigade - A York Boat adventure in the days of the fur trade by William Cornwallis King; A Surgeon on the Bay - An eighteenth-century man of all sciences by WB Ewart; Tourists in Old Montreal - Prime destination on the Victorian Grand Tour by Clarence Epstein; Christopher Moore looks at video; plus Book Reviews.

Keywords: Beaver Magazine Hudsons Bay Company; Fishing Souris River Marion Barker; Donald Lamont; Louis Slotin Canadian Scientist a-Bomb; Martin Zeilig; Tyrant Ottawa Valley Clan Mcnab Colonial Canada; Bernard Shaw; Red River Brigade York Boat Fur Trade; William Co


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