Fur Trade Wars Author:J. M. Bumsted, J.M. Bumsted At its height, the Hudson Bay Company's holdings covered almost a tenth of the world's land surface, stretching from the Arctic Ocean across the Prairies and the Rocky Mountains to British Columbia and Oregon. When the upstart North West Company of Montreal challenged the HBC supremacy, however, an ongoing battle erupted and changed the course o... more »f Canadian history. Fur Trade Wars is a colourful, in-depth account of this titanic struggle.« less