University of Manitoba - Clayton Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources

Colonial Encounters in the Fur Trade

Robert Wesley Heber
	About the Author We can always learn something from another’s personal experiences when the story of those experiences is told honestly. We can learn even more when those personal experiences deal with a significant piece of history. And we can learn still more when those experiences are situated within a critical and analytic perspective. Wes Heber’s experiences as a clerk for the Hudson’s Bay Company in the dying days of the fur trade, as recounted in his book *Colonial Encounters in the Fur Trade* offers teachings on all three levels. Heber tells the story of his experiences working for the Hudson’s Bay Company as a ‘bay boy’ with honesty, humor, and refreshing detail. He is not trying to burnish his image, either in the way he describes his work and responsibilities or in the way he puts forth as a storyteller. We learn about the inner workings of the Hudson’s Bay Company in its dealings with First Nations peoples through the eyes of Heber as a naïve young man seeking adventure, and often finding realities. Anecdote after anecdote, event after event unfolds and we get a close up insider’s view of the conditions of the time. Colonial Encounters in the Fur Trade brings you into a world, no longer existing, but whose legacy of abuse continues. Reading this book can help to build commitment to ending that legacy for the benefit of all.
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