A useful Servant to ye Company

The Fur Trade, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and Chattel Slavery with Dr. Anne Lindsay, Riley Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian History

This lecture is free, open to the public, and available online.

Biography: Dr. Anne Lindsay’s career has focused on archival primary source research, particularly in areas relating to settler interactions with Indigenous peoples, as well as fur trade-era history. Lindsay has just submitted a manuscript for an upcoming book on chattel slavery in the fur trade to be published by McGill-Queen's University Press, and is currently working on research guides to support archival research by and for families whose loved ones went away to Indian Residential Schools and never returned. Lindsay has held positions in archives and research with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba and before that, with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, as well as with the Office of the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. Lindsay is currently a Riley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg.