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04104aam a2200445 i 4500 001 2F25D8702E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 180529t20182018oncabf b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1487504721 020 $a 9781487504724 035 $a (OCoLC)1059290192 040 $a CNSLL $b eng $e rda $c CNSLL $d MEU $d OCLCO $d EMU $d CNKEY $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-cnp-- $a n-cn-bc $a n-cnp-- 100 1 $a Knight, James, $d -1720?, $e author. 240 10 $a Diaries. $k Selections 245 10 $a Life and death by the frozen sea : $b the York Fort Journals of Hudson's Bay Company Governor James Knight, 1714-1717 / $c edited by Arthur J. Ray. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b The Champlain Society, $c 2018. 300 $a xiv, 509 pages : $b illustrations, maps, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Publications of the Champlain Society ; $v 79 546 $a Text in English. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [487]-491) and index. 520 $a "In September 1714, Governor James Knight, who was in his early seventies and one of the most experienced men ever to assume command of a Hudson's Bay Company post, arrived at Fort Bourbon on the western shores of Hudson Bay to take possession of the twenty-year-old French fort. He renamed it York Fort and it is subsequently remembered as York Factory. Knight's daily journal during his tenure (1714-17) at the fort offers an extraordinary narrative about the harrowing struggles that he and his men faced in establishing themselves and surviving in the harsh environment. Unlike most company officers, Knight talked freely about his personal feelings, especially his bouts of depression, and his health problems. In so doing, Knight offers the reader of today a rare glimpse into how the stresses that post managers faced could affect their mental and physical health, thus their leadership abilities. Knight took every opportunity to interrogate his aboriginal trading partners about their territories and those of their neighbours and his journals thus provide us with our first information in English (and some misinformation) about many of the First Nations of Canada's prairie west and subarctic and Inuit groups of the Arctic. Because of his age and previous experience, Knight's journals also provide crucial insights into all aspects of the business during the early eighteenth century. He was not loath to criticize company management and to offer ways to improve the profitability of company operations. Not least, his narratives offer some of the earliest descriptions of the protocols of the trade (many of which were carried over into the treaty-making era in western Canada two centuries later) including the use of indigenous emissaries both to gain the loyalty of indigenous traders and to curtail inter-tribal warfare that interfered with the trade."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 505 0 $a Chapter 1: York Factory journal, 1714-15 -- Chapter 2: York Factory journal, 1715-16 -- Chapter 3: York Factory journal, 1716-1717 -- Epilogue: a fatal end of a dream. 600 10 $a Knight, James, $d -1720 $v Diaries. 610 20 $a Hudson's Bay Company $x Employees $v Diaries. 610 20 $a Hudson's Bay Company $x History $y 18th century. 610 24 $a Hudson's Bay Company $x Employees $v Diaries. 610 24 $a Hudson's Bay Company $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Fur trade $z Canada, Western $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a York Factory (Man.) $x History $y 18th century. 655 7 $a Diaries. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Ray, Arthur J., $e editor. 776 1 $a Knight, James, -1720? $s Diaries. Selections $t Life and death by the frozen sea. $d Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018. $k Publications of the Champlain Society ; $k Publications of the Champlain Society ; $w (CaOONL)20189031700 773 18 $w 990007355680202771 $g no:31858069380891 830 0 $a Publications of the Champlain Society ; $v 79. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191116015529.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F25D8702E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search