Journal of John Work : a chief-trader of the Hudson's Bay Co. during his expedition from Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest

John Work's Journals furnish the most extensive records of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest at the time of its greatest activity, when the business had reached maturity.

In Collection:

• Greater Victoria Public Library Local History Collection

Creator

• Work, John, 1792-1861

Contributor

• Phillips, Paul C. (Paul Chrisler), 1883-1956
• Lewis, William S. (William Stanley), 1876-1941

Subject

• Indigenous peoples
• Voyages and travels
• Fur trade
• Hudson's Bay Company
• Fur traders

Publisher

• Arthur H. Clark Co.

Language

• eng

Identifier

• GVPL Call Number: 979.5 WOR 2006

Date created

• 1923

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 209 pages ; 25 cm

Alternative title

• Early Western Journals, Number 1

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia
• Pacific Northwest

Coordinates

• 45.99696, -118.49854
• 53.99983, -125.0032

Chronological coverage

• August 18, 1831 to July 27, 1832

Additional physical characteristics

• Contains plates, map, and a portrait.

Physical repository

• Greater Victoria Public Library

Collection

• Greater Victoria Public Library Local History Collection

Provenance

• Greater Victoria Public Library

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• books
• diaries

Date digitized

• February 28, 2014

Technical note

• Technical metadata provided by JF, cataloguing metadata provided by GF and KD.

Rights

• Images are available on this site for private use. For all other uses or access to the original please contact the Greater Victoria Public Library.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/39wy-np53

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