British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800-1850 (Ronsdale 2006)
Alan Twigg’s third volume of illustrated B.C. history traces the writing and lives of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and their peers–mainly Scots–who founded more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850.
Thompson’s Highway: British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800-1850 (Ronsdale $24.95) presents Thompson as the hero of his era, the man who identified the Columbia River as the “highway” for commerce on the Western Slope, and who opened the route over the Rockies to connect East and West.
— Ronsdale Press catalogue copy
[This book was used as the basis for a French-German documentary film about David Thompson and the West Coast fur trade in which its author was featured; filmed in 2025 and completed in 2026.]
British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800-1850 (Peking University Press, 2013)
