Scott P. Stephen is a historian with Parks Canada, specializing in the fur trade and early settlement eras in western Canada.

"Blacksmiths, bookkeepers, loggers, tanners, coopers, cooks, sail-makers, interpreters, surveyors, clergy, the list goes on as Stephen marches us through the lives of the early Hudson's Bay worker. Some were unscrupulous fortune hunters. Some chose to abandon families in England and travel thousands of miles to seek their livelihood in furs.... We also read stories of belligerence, arson, thievery, and murder.... Everything is thoroughly documented using the Company's voluminous archive." [Full review at https://ormsbyreview.com/2020/10/06/937-verzuh-stephen-hbc-workforce/] -- Ron Verzuh -- The Ormsby Review, 20201006

"[Masters and Servants] is an important and valuable contribution. Stephen has opened a new window into early HBC history, while revealing some of the good, some of the bad, and some of the ugly of a legendary institution." [Full article at https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2020/04/the-human-factor/] -- Michael Taube, Literary Review of Canada, April 2020