The North West Company

xiv, 295 pp. Includes several maps. A history of the formation and career of the North West Company, originally founded in 1779 by a group of independent fur traders. It would later merge with the Hudson's Bay Company, after establishing a wide-ranging network that reached the Arctic. Benjamin Frobisher was a shareholder in the company, which also had as its associates other well-known men such as Pond, Mackenzie, Thompson, and Fraser.