The Daily British Colonist (1860-09-25)

The Daily British Colonist (1860-09-25)

Fur Trade
Trade
Enterprise
Hudson’s Bay Company
Forts
Indigenous Peoples
Captain McKay
Advertisement
Newspaper
Victoria
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Canada
North-West Coast
19th century
Fort Simpson

This is a page from the newspaper, The Daily British Colonist on 25/09/1860. The newspaper is based in Victoria, Vancouver Island, including a variety of sections, such as, ‘Advertisements’, ‘Miscellaneous’, ‘Notices’, ‘Removals’, ‘Auction’, ‘Dry & Fancy Goods’ and many more. This is useful as it gives us an insight into the wider picture of everyday life in nineteenth century British Columbia, specifically in Victoria, V.I. In the context of the fur trade, the article on the second page of the newspaper, titled ‘Trade of the North-West Coast’, is very useful in showing the extent of which Hudson’s Bay Company monopolised the fur trade. It also provides us with an understanding of the relations between HBC and the Indians, as well as the workings of the Company, an example of its profits at Fort Simpson and its license of trade with the Indians. This source will be useful for the study of microhistories.

The British Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia

The British Colonist: Online Edition 1858-1951, https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18600925uvic, p. 2.

25/09/1860

Tejal Mistry

The British Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia

English

Textual - printed newspaper

19th century British Columbia