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The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright
An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.
George Cartwright's The Labrador Companion
New manuscripts directly related to Canada’s history rarely come to light. The Labrador Companion, written in 1810 by Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), and discovered in 2013, is a fascinating and unusual find because of its level of detail, its setting in a hardly studied part of Britain’s fur-trade empire, and because it is a personal account rather than a trade outfit ledger or government document. This annotated edition transcribes The Labrador Companion in full. Cartwright documented the everyday work of Labrador’s particular kind of fur-trade life based on his experiences operating a series of merchant stations in southern Labrador between 1770 and 1786. Although his focus i...
The Afterlife of George Cartwright
The spirit of George Cartwright--soldier, adventurer, naturalist, entrepreneur, and gentleman--wanders the earth, searching for the meaning of life as the eighteenth-century explorer who first pushed into Labrador. 10,000 first printing. National ad/promo.
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