Research Catalog

Title

George Simpson : blaze of glory / D.T. Lahey.

Author

Lahey, Dale, 1933-

Publication

Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

260 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

• Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792-1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert's Land and the Indian territories, an area encompassing all of Canada from Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean. By his friendliness of manner, strict discipline, and vigorous and constant travel, he brought peace and prosperity to the vast empire under his control.
• Simpson's explorations opened Canada from Labrador to British Columbia and from Yukon to Nunavut. He was knighted in 1841, then travelled around the world, predicting the fall of California to the United States, saving the Hawaiians from colonial occupation, and describing the mysteries of remotest Siberia. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Quest biography

Uniform Title

Quest biography

Subject

• Simpson, George, Sir, 1786 or 1787-1860
• Simpson, George, Sir, 1792?-1860
• Hudson's Bay Company > Biography
• Hudson's Bay Company > History > 19th century
• Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson > Biographies
• Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson > Histoire > 19e siècle
• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1820-1860
• Fur trade > Canada > History > 19th century
• Fourrures > Commerce > Histoire > Canada > 19e siècle
• Northwest, Canadian > Biography
• Northwest, Canadian > Discovery and exploration
• Northwest, Canadian > History > To 1870
• Nord-Ouest canadien > Biographies
• Nord-Ouest canadien > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1870
• Nord-Ouest canadien > Découverte et exploration

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references ( p. [247]-252).

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in an electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dingwall : search for Scottish origins -- London : this youth is just come from the highlands -- Rupert's land : war in the Athabasca -- Red River : recall your memory to that summer -- columbia : "a spirit of enterprize" -- Marriage : many tender ties -- "Character book" : the strangest man I ever knew -- Diplomacy : as if awakened from a dream -- Rupert's land : everything is in extremes -- California : nature doing every thing, man doing nothing -- Sandwich Islands : "by the sweat of their brows" -- Siberia : "they looked as if actually afloat" -- Glow of power : riding with the emperor -- Last years : the polite old English gentleman.

ISBN

• 9781554887736
• 1554887739

OCLC

• 614854312
• SCSB-12222469

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library