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This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett’s eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.
The lives of Indigenous people in remote areas of northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the 1960s and 1970s are examined in detail. Flett’s successful career with both the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company provides an insight into the dying days of the fur trade and the rise of a new retail business tailored to First Nations.
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“Solutions and newfound pride in the Canadian identity can be found by looking honestly and responding appropriately to the lessons of history.” — “Indigenous people are not the ‘ghosts of history’” by Len Flett & Nicole Letourneau in the Thompson Citizen
Endorsements
“a remarkable point of view.” — Trevor Greyeyes, First Nations Voice
Reviews
“a promising personal memoir … it’s [Flett’s] incidental descriptions of what it was like on those far-away and isolated trading posts of the legendary HBC that makes this book spring to life as an entertaining read.” — Winnipeg Free Press
Author Biography
LEONARD FLETT is a Cree status member of the Big Trout Lake Ontario First Nation. Originally from Cumberland House, Saskatchewan and Shamattawa, Manitoba, he has an extensive 42-year background with the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, retiring as vice-president in 2005. He has been recognized by the Aboriginal community with the bestowal of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in 2002, by the province of Manitoba with the Order of Manitoba in 2012, and by Canada with the induction into the Order of Canada in 2004. He is also a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal.
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2015, Leonard Flett
Great Plains Publications
Great Plains Publications Ltd. is an independent publisher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and committed to bringing you the very best books from the Prairies – a region we believe has an abundance of quality writers. We also publish fiction from authors across the country in our imprints, Enfield & Wizenty and Yellow Dog.
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- Publisher Great Plains Publications
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781927855331
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- Pages320
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Original Language AuthorsEnglish
- Copyright Year2015
- Dimensions9 x 6 inches
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