The Kandik Map

Acknowledgements

1        The Kandik Map: Reflections on Time and Space

Discovering the North: Story Lines and Camps

Recovering the North: New Sources and More Perspectives

The Social Life of a Northern Document

Conclusion

2        Searching for Paul Kandik

Mapping an Identity

Words and Sounds: Reading and Listening for the Past

Conclusion

3        Documenting a Mystery

Tracking the Names Paul and Kandik

First Meetings: The Hudson’s Bay Company Period

The American Trade and Exploration Period

Big Paul: Pilot on the Upper Yukon

Government Records and the Gold Rush Era

Conclusion

4        François Mercier: Agent of Change

François Mercier: Early Years in the American West and Alaska

Time of Change: The Legacy of the Old Monopolies

The American Takeover: With French Canadian Traders

More Change on the Yukon

The Summer of 1880: The Census and the Kandik Map

Back to the Hän Country Again

Conclusion

5        Mapping the North: Where the Kandik Map Fits In

Unveiling the North

Defining the Boundary

Conclusion

6        Meetings and Meanings

Using Space and Knowing Place

Meetings, Meanings, and Motivations

Stories of the Kandik Map

Conclusion

Appendix, Chart of Place Names

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Unpublished and Archival Sources