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During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the
North West and Hudson's Bay companies extended their operations
beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they
encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural
resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into
farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with
the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company set up its
headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From
there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy,
sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco.
Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration
between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the
Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North
America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic
diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation
into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents
the Hudson's Bay Company's employment of Native slaves and
labourers in the North West coast region.
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