"Five hundred and fifty copies of this volume have been printed. Fifty are reserved for editorial purposes. The remaining five hundred are supplied only to members of the society and to subscribing libraries."

"The document here published is not, properly speaking, a document of the Hudson's bay company at all, although it is preserved in the company's archives ... Yet it has an important place in any attempt to publish the documents which will furnish to the historian the raw materials from which to reconstruct the story of the union of the Hudson's bay company and the Northwest company."--Pref.

The publications of the Champlain society. Hudson's bay company series. II

Northwest, Canadian > History.

Hudson Bay > History.