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• The North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1866), by William Fitzwilliam Milton and Walter B. Cheadle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The five forts of Winnipeg (s.n., 1885), by George Bryce and Royal Society of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of six years residence in Hudson's Bay from 1733 to 1736 and 1744 to 1747 (Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet ... [and 3 others], 1752), by Joseph Robson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba and the Northwest Territories the real new northwest ([s.n.], 1879), by Thomas Dowse and Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of trials in the courts of Canada, relative to the destruction of the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River with observations (J. Murray, 1820), by Andrew Amos (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the North-West (Hunter, Rose, 1894), by Alexander Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two provisional governments in Manitoba containing an interesting discussion of the Riel Rebellion : with an appendix embodying the four bills of rights verbatim (s.n.], 1890), by George Bryce and Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Manitoba from the earliest settlement to 1835 (s.n.], 1880), by Donald Gunn and Charles R. Tuttle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red River (Printed for the author by J. Lovell, 1871), by Joseph James Hargrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• The causes of the rising in the Red River Settlement 1869-70 (s.n., 1882), by Alexander McArthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 18 July 1864, for "copy of all correspondence which has taken place between the imperial and Canadian governments respecting the north-western boundary of Canada, and of any memorials forwarded to the Colonial Office from the inhabitants of the Red River Settlement" (s.n., 1864), by Great Britain Colonial Office and Canada. Governor General (1861-1868 : Monck) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esquisse du commerce de pelleteries des Anglois, dans l'Amérique septentrionale avec des observations relatives à la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest de Montréal (Imprimé par James Brown ..., 1819), by Thomas Douglas Selkirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vingt années de missions dans le nord-ouest de l'Amérique (Librairie Saint-Joseph, 1888), by Alexandre A. Taché (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Ouest canadien sa découverte par le sieur de la Vérendrye, son exploitation par les compagnies de traiteurs jusqu'à l'année 1822 (Cadieux & Derome, 1896), by Georges Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest récits de voyages, lettres et rapports inédits relatifs au nord-ouest canadien : publié avec une esquisse historique et des annotations (s.n.], 1889), by L. R. Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vingt années de missions dans le nord-ouest de l'Amérique (E. Sénécal, 1866), by Alexandre A. Taché (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the British fur trade in North America with observations relative to the North-West Company of Montreal (Printed for James Ridgway ..., 1816), by Thomas Douglas Selkirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the St. Paul trail in the sixties (s.n.], 1900), by W. G. Fonseca and Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ossiniboia (s.n., 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of transactions in the Red River country from the commencement of the operations of the Earl of Selkirk till the summer of the year 1816 (Printed by B. M'Millan ... sold by Egerton [and 2 others], 1819), by Alexander Macdonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba inaugural address (s.n., 1889), by Charles N. Bell and Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers referring to Red River Settlement, Hudson's Bay Territories (s.n.], 1866), by Andrew H. Bulger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rapport du Comité spécial sur les causes des troubles du Territoire du Nord-Ouest en 1869-70 (s.n.], 1874), by Canada. Parlement Chambres des communes Comité spécial sur les causes des troubles du Territoire du Nord-Ouest en 1869-70 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vingt années de missions dans le nord-ouest de l'Amérique (E. Senécal, 1869), by Alexandre A. Taché (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Red River country, Hudson's Bay & North-West Territories, considered in relation to Canada with the last report of S.J. Dawson, ... on the line of route between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement, illustrated with a map (G.E. Desbarats, 1864), by A. J. Russell and S. J. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents relating to the opening up of the North-West Territories to settlement and cultivation (s.n., 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heralds of empire being the story of one Ramsay Stanhope, lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the northern fur trade (W. Briggs, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reply to the letter, lately addressed to the Right Honorable the Earl of Selkirk, by the Hon. and Rev. John Strachan, D D. rector of York, in Upper Canada being four letters, (re-printed from the Montreal Herald) : containing a statement of facts, concerning the settlement on Red-River in the district of Ossiniboia, territory of the Honble. Hudson's Bay Company, properly called Rupert' s Land (Printed by W. Gray, 1816), by Archibald McDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian territories proclamation of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. (Printed at Quebec, by P.E. Desbarats, law printer to His Majesty; Reprinted at York, in Upper Canada, by order of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, by R.C. Horne, printer to the King' s Most Excellent Majesty, 1817), by Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay, From 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747 (London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752), by Joseph Robson (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• On the Old Athabaska Trail (ca. 1926), by Lawrence J. Burpee (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, Being an Account of His Travels and Experiences Among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684, by Pierre Esprit Radisson (Gutenberg text)
• The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914), by Agnes C. Laut
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• History of the North-west. (Hunter, Rose & Co., 1894), by Alexander Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trailmakers of the Northwest (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1921), by Paul Leland Haworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The honourable company; a history of the Hudson's Bay Company (Bobbs-Merrill, 1936), by Douglas MacKay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Company (1667-1871) being a history of the Honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay (Smith, Elder & co., 1900), by Beckles Willson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Donald Mackenzie, "King of the Northwest"; the story of an international hero of the Oregon country and the Red river settlement at Lower Fort Garry (Winnipeg) (I. Deach, jr., 1937), by Cecil Walter Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Company of adventurers; a narrative of seven years in the service of the Hudson's Bay company during 1867-1874, on the great buffalo plains, with historical and biographical notes and comments (W. Briggs, 1913), by Isaac Cowie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Building the Canadian West; the land and colonization policies of the Canadian Pacific railway (The Macmillan company, 1939), by James Blaine Hedges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years in Canada; reminiscences of the great North-west, with some account of his service in South Africa (McClelland, Goodchild, & Stewart, limited;, 1915), by Samuel Benfield Steele and Mollie Glenn Niblett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journal de l'expédition du chevalier de Troyes à la baie d'Hudson, en 1686. (La Compagnie de "L'Éclaireur,", 1918), by Pierre Troyes and Ivanhoe Caron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Canadian North-west: its history and its troubles, from the early days of the fur-trade to the era of the railway and the settler (Rose, 1885), by G. Mercer Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian North-west: its history and its troubles from the early days of the fur-trade to the era of the railway and the settler; with incidents of travel in the region, and the narrative of three insurrections (Rose publishing company;, 1885), by G. Mercer Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'ouest canadien; sa découverte par le sieur de la Vérendrye; son exploitation par les compagnies de traiteurs jusqu'à l'année 1822. (Cadieux & Derome, 1896), by George Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'Ouest canadien de 1822 à 1869; époque des troubles (Librarie Beauchemin, limitée, 1906), by Georges Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Légendes du Nord-Ouest (Librarie Saint Joseph, 1883), by George Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vérité sur la question métisse au Nord-ouest. ([s.n.], 1889), by Adolphe Ouimet and B. A. T. de Montigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encore l'amnistie (Imprimerie du journal Le Métis, 1875), by Alexandre A. Taché (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, being an account of his travels and experiences among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684. Transcribed from original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. (The Prince society, 1885), by Pierre Esprit Radisson and G. D. Scull (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief history of the Hudson's Bay Company. (Hudson's Bay Co., 1936), by Hudson's Bay Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hudson Bay road (1498-1915) (J.M. Dent, 1915), by Auguste Henri de Trémaudan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explorations of Pierre Esprit Radisson : from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum (Ross and Haines, 1961), by Pierre Esprit Radisson, Loren Kallsen, and Arthur T. Adams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir Alexander Mackenzie and his influence on the history of the North West (Jackson Press, 1922), by W. N. Sage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The remarkable history of the Hudson's Bay company, including that of the French traders of north-western Canada and of the North-west, XY, and Astor fur companies (S. Low, Marston & company, limited, 1900), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the old Athabaska trail (F.A. Stokes company, 1927), by Lawrence J. Burpee (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Catholic Church in western Canada : from Lake Superior to the Pacific (1659-1895) (Musson Book Co., 1910), by A. G. Morice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The `Adventurers of England' on Hudson bay : a chronicle of the fur trade in the North (Glasgow, Brook, 1920), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The remarkable history of the Hudson's Bay company, including that of the French traders of north-western Canada and of the North-west, XY, and Astor fur companies (Scribner's, 1910), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The search for the western sea; the story of the exploration of north-western America (D. Appleton and Company, 1908), by Lawrence J. Burpee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years in Canada;reminiscences of the great North-west, with some account of his service in South Africa (H. Jenkins, limited, 1915), by Samuel B. Steele and Mollie Glenn Niblett (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Ouest canadien; sa découverte par le Sieur de La Vérendrye; son exploitation par les compagnies de traiteurs jusqu'à l'année 1822. (Cadieux & Derome, 1896), by George Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years in Canada; reminiscences of the great Northwest, with some account of his service in South Africa. (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1915), by Samuel B. Steele and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (page images at HathiTrust)
• The range men : the story of the ranchers and Indians of Alberta (W. Briggs, 1913), by L. V. Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson bay: a chronicle of the fur trade in the North (Brook & company, 1914), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Hudson Bay road (1498-1915) (Dutton, 1916), by Auguste Henri de Trémaudan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great company; a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay. (Dodd, 1900), by Beckles Willson, Arthur Heming, and Donald Alexander Smith Strathcona and Mount Royal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian West; its discovery by the Sieur de La Vérendrye. Its development by the fur-trading companies, down to the year 1822. (Librairie Beauchemin (limited), 1905), by Georges Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The remarkable history of the Hudson's Bay Company : including that of the French traders of North-western Canada and of the North-west, XY, and Astor Fur Companies (Sampson Low, Marston, 1910), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, being an account of his travels and experiences among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684. (P. Smith, 1943), by Pierre Esprit Radisson and G. D. Scull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Policing the plains : being the real-life record of the famous Royal North-West Mounted Police (George H. Doran co., 1921), by R. G. MacBeth and BookLab (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of western Canada (W. Briggs, 1918), by R. G. MacBeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire abrégée de l'ouest Canadien : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta et grand-nord ([s.n.], 1914), by A. G. Morice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great company; being a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers, trading into Hudson's Bay (The Copp, Clark company, limited, 1899), by Beckles Willson and Donald Alexander Smith Strathcona and Mount Royal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The search for the western sea : the story of the exploration of north-western America (The Musson book company, limited, 1908), by Lawrence J. Burpee and Joseph T. Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the trapper (Appleton, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greater Canada : the past, present and future of the Canadian North-west (Chatto & Windus, 1900), by Edward Bolland Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of the great Northwest : being the story of the adventures of England known as the Hudson's Bay Company : new pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western states (London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1909), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de l'Église catholique dans l'Ouest canadien : du lac Supérieur au Pacifique (1659-1905) (L'Auteur, 1912), by A. G. Morice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay Company. New pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States (Outing Pub. Co., 1908), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of western Canada (The Ryerson press, 1920), by Roderick George MacBeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The remarkable history of the Hudson's Bay Company, including that of the French traders of north-western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor fur companies. (Briggs, 1910), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurers of England on Hudson Bay : a chronicle of the fur trade in the North (Glasgow, Brook, 1922), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
• British North America (s.n., 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech delivered in the House of Commons by the Hon. A.G. Archibald, during the debate on the "Manitoba Bill", May 7, 1870 = Discours prononcé à la Chambre des communes par l'hon. A. G. Archibald, lors de la discussion du "Bill de Manitoba", le 7 mai 1870. (s.n.], 1870), by Adams George Archibald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The remarkable history of the Hudson's Bay Company including that of the French traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor fur companies (S. Low, Marston, 1900), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manitoba and the great North-West the field for investment, the home of the emigrant (T.C. Jack, 1883), by John Macoun, George Monro Grant, and Alexander Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Canadian North-West its past history, present condition, and glorious prospects (s.n.], 1881), by Alexander Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The remarkable history of the Hudson's Bay Company including that of the French traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor fur companies (W. Briggs, 1900), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great North-West of Canada a paper read at conference, Indian and Colonial Exhibition, London, June 8th, 1886 (H. Blacklock, 1886), by Alexander Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some historical names and places of the Canadian North-West (s.n.], 1885), by Charles N. Bell and Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian North-West its history and its troubles, from the early days of the fur trade to the era of the railway and the settler; with incidents of travel in the region, and the narrative of three insurrections (Rose Pub. Co.;, 1885), by G. Mercer Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba and the great North-West the field for investment; the home of the emigrant, being a full and complete history of the country ... (World Pub. Co., 1882), by John Macoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P., Her Majesty's prime minister respecting the suppression of certain papers by the government, the "Red River Rebellion," and the illegal transfer of the North-West Territories to the Canadian government, 1870 (Printed for the author by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870), by G. O. Corbett and W. E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Regina (illustrated) its foundation and growth, with notices of the early pioneer merchants and business men, descriptive notices of the government offices and public institutions, with biographical sketches of Lieut.-Gov. Dewdney and principal officials ... and authentic sources (s.n.], 1887), by J. W. Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riel contre l'Eglise catholique aux Canadiens-français. (s.n., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La première Canadienne du Nord-Ouest ou Biographie de Marie-Anne Gaboury, arrivée au Nord-Ouest en 1806, et décédée à Saint-Boniface à l'â ge de 96 ans (Cadieux & Derome, 1883), by Georges Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un voyageur des pays d'en haut (C.O. Beauchemin, 1890), by Georges Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monseigneur Provencher et les missions de la Riviére-Rouge (C.O. Beauchemin, 1889), by Georges Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'amnistie mémoire sur les causes des troubles du Nord-Ouest et sur les négociations qui ont amené leur règlement amiable (s.n.], 1874), by Louis Riel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sources of North-western history (Manitoba Free Press, 1883), by William Dennis and Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of the Prairie Provinces (W. Briggs, 1911), by Walter S. Herrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of western Canada (W. Briggs, 1918), by R. G. MacBeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mackenzie, Selkirk, Simpson (Morang, 1906), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manitoba and the Canadian North-West (Parsons & Richardson, 1879), by Thomas Dowse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deux oubliés de l'histoire Jean-Baptiste Bruce, Jean-Louis-Légaré (Impr. pour la Société Royale du Canada, 1914), by L. A. Prud'homme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monseigneur Provencher et les missions de la Rivière-Rouge. (C.O. Beauchemin & fils, 1889), by Georges Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Première Canadienne du Nord-Ouest (Librairie Saint-Joseph, 1883), by Georges Dugas, University of Waterloo. Library. Women's Studies Collection, and Oeuvre des bons livres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greater Canada : the past, present, and future of the Canadian Northwest : together with a new map especially prepared for this volume from the latest governmental surveys (A. Wessels, 1900), by E. B. Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the trapper (D. Appleton and company, 1912), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay : a chronicle of the fur trade in the north (Glasgow, Brook, 1921), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years in Canada : reminiscences of the great North-west with some account of his service in South Africa (Dodd, Mead, 1915), by Samuel B. Steele, Joseph Grose Colmer, and Mollie Glenn Niblett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trailmakers of the Northwest (F.D. Goodchild, 1921), by Paul Leland Haworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West (North West historical company, 1913), by Norman Fergus 1876-1964 Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influence of the War of 1812 upon the settlement of the Canadian West (s.n., 1910), by Lawrence J. Burpee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Company, 1667-1871 : being a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay : compiled from the Company's archives, from diplomatic documents and state papers of France and England, from the narratives of factors and traders, and from many accounts and memoirs (Smith, Elder, 1900), by Beckles Willson and Donald Alexander Smith Strathcona and Mount Royal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company: Including that of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies, by George Bryce (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great Company: Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants-Adventurers Trading into Hudson's Bay, by Beckles Willson, contrib. by Donald Alexander Smith Strathcona and Mount Royal, illust. by Arthur Heming (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of the Trapper, by Agnes C. Laut, illust. by Arthur Heming (Gutenberg ebook)
• Policing the Plains: Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police, by R. G. MacBeth (Gutenberg ebook)

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