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A Fur Trader’s Photographs: A.A. Chesterfield in the District of Ungava, 1901-4

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Chesterfield recorded the effects of post life upon the Cree and Inuit, and showed how the white agents of the church and fur trade made us of native implements, clothing, and transportation. Recognizing the threat to native ways of life posed by the white man’s advancing civilization, he photographed the native people’s dress, their on a regular basis activities, the main points that define a culture. Much of what he recorded is now lost endlessly. The text by William C. James provides a detailed framework by which to consider the photographs. James describes Chesterfield’s life, the region, the people he photographed, the role of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the documentary significance of the activities depicted within the photographs, and the connection between these and other extant photos of that region and era. The three-year period Chesterfield spent within the District of Ungava emerges as an important in his own development and as a decisive turning point within the history of the region. Along side James’s text, these pictures constitute an arresting chronicle of a spot, its people, and their ways of life, now all irrevocably changed.

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