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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Hudson's Bay Company Fur Trade Post Manual |
| Library | University of Alberta |
| Date | 31 May 1933 |
| Place of Publication | Winnipeg |
| Description | Intended for internal use by Hudson’s Bay Company employees, clearly laying out the policies to be followed at their trading posts. The manual includes sections on: buildings and lands, fire protection, merchandise, furs (with details on grading furs), staffing regulations (“employees at posts are not permitted to marry, without first obtaining the consent of the district manager”), records, and sundry memoranda (“employees are strictly forbidden to sell or give intoxicating liquors to Indians”). The manual was issued by Ralph Parsons, Fur Trade Commissioner, who during his earlier positions at posts in Northern Labrador issued his own metal trade tokens, since known as “Parson’s Pieces.” |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Employment and Labour; Regulation and Legislation; Trade and Commerce |
| Keywords | alcohol, badger, bear, beaver, business, correspondence, customer, design, employment, fire, fox, fur trade, gambling, grading furs, health, hunting, indigenous peoples, land, liquor, lynx, marriage, merchandise, marten, mink, missionaries, otter, raccoon, religion, salary, staffing regulations, shipment, skunk, staff, stoat, stock, trade, wolf |
| Countries | Canada |
| Company | Hudson's Bay Company |
| Copyright | University of Alberta |
