Name: From the Barren Lands
Brand: Great Plains Publications
SKU: 9781927855331
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From the Barren Lands

Fur Trade, First Nations, and a Life in Northern Canada

By (author): Leonard Flett

Published by Great Plains Publications

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Published: 11-Apr-2015
ISBN: 9781927855331

Paperback
320 Pages

Subjects:
History of the Americas
Indigenous peoples
Hunting or shooting animals & game
Canada

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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 Fletts 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. Fletts successful career with both the Hudsons 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.

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 Hudsons 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 Queens Diamond Jubilee medal.