Reviews

The Company' Review: Conquering Canada

The Wall Street Journal

Bown "tells the story of the Hudson's Bay Company with verve and an astringent, contemporary slant. . . The Company is compelling, both as a lively narrative about a corporation that helped shape North American development and as a thoughtful exploration of the complex indigenous cultures that once dominated the continent."

Wall Street Journal

"Absorbing and nuanced . . . the Simpson era, generally featured as a business triumph in earlier histories, is a more fine-grained and melancholy tale in The Company"

Maclean's

Tall beaver tales show a vital animal in Canada's history was also misunderstood...

An excerpt in the Toronto Star: