For further reading:

1) Allaire, Gratien, 1984: Fur Trade Engagés, 1701-1745, pp 15-26, IN Thomas C. Buckley, ed., Rendezvous: Selected Papers of the Fourth North American Fur Trade Conference. St-Paul: North American Fur Trade Conference.
2) Andrews, R. J., 1969: The Voyageurs. Toronto: Ginn and Company.
3) Davidson, Gordon C., 1918: The North West Company. Berkeley: University of California Press.
4) Dickinson, John A. and Brian Young, 1993: A Short History of Québec. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd..
5) Innis, Harold A., 1970: The Fur Trade in Canada. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
6) Lande, Lawrence M., 1989: The Development of the Voyageur Contract, 1686-1821. Montreal: McGill University-Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian History Research.
7) Nute, Grace Lee, 1955: The Voyageur. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society.
8) Rich, E.E., 1976: The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
9) Stevens, Wayne E., 1928: The Northwest Fur Trade, 1763-1800. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.