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410 pages
5.5 x 8.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7778995-9-2
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An ambitious man grapples with a world in transition and the realization that his sons will not be continuing his legacy in the Hudson's Bay Company.​

A COMPANY MAN
Book 4 in Helen's Canadian Historical Series
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In 1876, Thomas Barnston Ross, determined to follow his dream of advancement with the Hudson's Bay Company, uprooted his wife and five children–the oldest nine and the youngest an infant of three months–from their home near Chicoutimi, Quebec. The family travelled by paddle-wheeler and canoe hundreds of miles through the vast wilderness to an isolated HBC trading post in northern Ontario.* There, they remained for a decade, raising a family that eventually totalled ten children.

Thomas was a proud, driven man, ambitious for himself and for his sons, whom he was determined would follow in his footsteps as employees of the HBC. However, despite his ability to thrive in the wild forests, he was ill-equipped to embrace the momentous changes that were to dominate the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

The future he had always envisioned for himself and his nine sons was not to be. Where he was unable to adapt to change, they were. Rather than taking pride in their significant achievements in pursuits far from the wilderness, Thomas turned to alcohol to help him cope with his anger and disillusionment.

*The story of this journey is told in Book One of Helen's Canadian Historical Series,  COMPANY WIFE.

Book 1:  Company Wife  |  Book 2:  Trader's Son  |  
Book 3:   Medical Man  |  Book 4:  A Company Man