Lectures suggérées :

1) Dictionnaire biographique du Canada/Canadian Dictionary of Biography.
2) Casanova, Jacques-Donat, 1975, Une Amérique française, La Documentation française et l'éditeur officiel du Québec.
3) Dickinson, John A. and Brian Young, 1993: A Short History of Québec. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd..
4) Dugas, G. 1924, Un voyageur des Pays d'en Haut, Montréal, Librairie Beauchemin.
5) Hubert-Robert, Régine, 1945, L'épopée de la fourrure, Montréal, éditions de l'Arbre.
6) Jacquin, Philippe, 1996, Les Indiens Blancs : Français et Indiens en Amérique du Nord (XVIe - XVIIIe siècle), Montréal, Libre Expression.
7) Morice, A.-G., 1908, Dictionnaire historique des Canadiens et des Métis français de l'ouest, Québec, J.-P. Garneau.
8) Rumilly, Robert, 1980, La Compagnie du nord-ouest: une épopée montréalaise, Montréal, Fides.
9) Tassé, Joseph, 1878, Les Canadiens de l'Ouest, Montréal, Compagnie d'imprimerie canadienne.
10) Wallace, Stewart W., 1948 (ed.): Encyclopedia of Canada. Toronto: University Associates of Canada.
11) Wilson, Clifford P. 1936: "The Beaver Club." The Beaver, March 1936: 19-24 et 64.
12) Bakker, Peter, 1997: A Language of Our Own: the Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13) Brown, Jennifer, 1980: Strangers in blood. Fur trade company families in Indian country. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
14) Bumsted, Jack M., 1999: Fur Trade Wars: the Founding of Western Canada. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications.
15) Dickason, Olive P., 1985: From "One Nation" to the Northeast to "New Nation" in the Northwest: A look at the emergence of the Métis, pp 19-36, IN Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer S. H. Brown, eds., The new peoples. Being and becoming Métis in North America. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
16) Dickason, Olive P., 1997: Canada's First Nations: a History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
17) Francis, Daniel, 1982: Battle for the West: Fur Traders and the Birth of Western Canada. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers.
18) McMillan, Alan D., 1995: Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre.
19) Morice, A.-G., 1908, Dictionnaire historique des Canadiens et des Métis français de l'ouest, Québec, J.-P. Garneau.
20) Pannekoek, Frits, 1987, Le commerce des fourrures et la société de l'ouest canadien, 1670-1870, Ottawa, La Société historique du Canada.
21) Thistle, Paul C., 1986: Indian-European Trade Relations in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
22) Van Kirk, Sylvia, 1992: The Impact of White Women on Fur Trade Society, pp 181-204, IN J.R. Miller, ed., Sweet Promises: a Reader of Indian-White Relations in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
23) Wallace, Stewart, W., 1948 (ed.): Encyclopedia of Canada. Toronto: University Associates of Canada.
24)Campbell, Marjorie W., 1962: McGillivray: Lord of the Northwest. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Company.
25) Campbell, Marjorie W., 1969: Push to the Pacific, Jackdaw no. C14 (Charles Irwin, ed.). Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Company.
26) Campbell, Marjorie W., 1971: The Fur Trade, Jackdaw no. C5 (Charles Irwin, ed.). Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Company.
27) Dictionnaire biographique du Canada/Canadian Dictionary of Biography.
28) Devine, Heather, 1994: Roots in the Mohawk Valley: Sir William Johnson's Legacy in the North West Company, pp 217-42, IN Jennifer S. H. Brown, W.J. Eccles and Donald P. Heldman, eds, The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference. East Lansing/Mackinac Island: Michigan State University Press/Mackinac State Historic Parks.
29) Duckworth, Harry W., 1994: British Capital in the Fur Trade: John Strettell and John Fraser, pp 39-54, IN Jennifer S. H. Brown, W.J. Eccles and Donald P. Heldman, eds, The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference. East Lansing/Mackinac Island: Michigan State University Press/Mackinac State Historic Parks.
30) Frost, Stanley B., 1995: James McGill of Montreal. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
31) Gough, Barry, 1997: First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
32) Mackenzie, Alexander, 1905: Voyages from Montreal through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 with an account of the rise and state of the fur trade (Vol 1). New York: Allerton Books.
33) Mackenzie, Alexander, 1962: First man West: Alexander Mackenzie's journal of his voyage to the Pacific coast of Canada in 1793. Montreal: McGill University Press.
34) MacMillan, David S., 1981, L'écossais, homme d'affaires, pp. 216-246, In La tradition écossaise au Canada, publié sous la direction de Stanford W. Reid, Ottawa, Ministère des Approvisionnements et Services.
35) Mitchell, Elaine A., 1981, Les écossais et le commerce des fourrures, pp 32-60, In La tradition écossaise au Canada, publié sous la direction de Stanford W. Reid, Ottawa, Ministère des Approvisionnements et Services.
36) Thompson, David, 1994: Columbia Journals (edited by Barbara Belyea). Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
37) Town, Florida A., 1999: The North West Company: Frontier Merchants. Toronto: Umbrella Press.
38) Van Kirk, Sylvia, 1980: Fur Trade Social History, pp 160-76, IN Carol M. Judd and Arthur J. Ray, eds., Old Trails and New Directions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
39) Wallace, Stewart W., 1934: Documents Relating to the North West Company. Toronto: The Champlain Society.
40) Wallace, Stewart, W., 1948 (ed.): Encyclopedia of Canada. Toronto: University Associates of Canada.
41) Wallace, Stewart W., 1954: The Pedlars from Québec and other Papers on the Nor'Westers. Toronto: The Ryerson Press.
42) White, Patrick C.T., 1958: Lord Selkirk's Diary, 1803-1804. Toronto: The Champlain Society.