Adventures in the West: Henry Ross Halpin, Fur Trader and Indian Agent

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This is the story of Irish-born Henry Ross Halpin| who by the age of 16 began a long association with the fur trade and Canada’s native peoples| was thrice employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company| and became an Indian agent (18851901). Halpin’s work took him from Fort Garry| Manitoba| to Fort York on the shores of the Hudson Bay| and across the Prairies to British Columbia. This book is based on Halpin’s previously unpublished menoirs| Hudson’s Bay Company post journals and correspondence| the 1885 Rebellion trials where Halpin was a witness| and the reports and correspondence of the Department of Indian Affairs.