Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. The Backgrounds and Antecedents of the British Traders -- 2. Company Men with a Difference: The London and Montreal Britishers -- 3. Company Men and Native Women in Hudson Bay -- 4. North West Company Men and Native Women -- 5. Gentlemen of 1821: New Directions in Fur Trade Social Life -- 6. Different Loyalties: Sexual and Marital Relationships of Company Officers after 1821 -- 7. Fur Trade Parents and Children before 1821 -- 8. Patterns and Problems of "Placing": Company Offspring in Britain and Canada after 1821 -- 9. Fur Trade Sons and Daughters in a New Company Context -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.