Students are expected to produce an analytical essay of 6 to 8 pages, which compares two books that explore a theme in Canadian working class history. All students should select a topic from the list included below. The paper should be evaluate each book, discuss their strengths and weaknesses and how they complement or disagree with each other. The comparative book review should have a good balance of fact and argument. Your paper should be well organized, logically argued and well written. It will be evaluated for its content, organization, analysis and writing.
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Write a 6 to 8 page (typed, double-spaced) essay on the following topics. This comparative book review should be well-written and analytical. See instructions above. Footnotes (or endnotes) are required and a bibliography may include additional readings.
1. Discuss Aboriginals? work in the fur trade in Canada and how it changed their lives as hunter-gatherers. Arthur J. Ray, Indians in the Fur Trade and Sylvia Van Kirk, ?Many Tender Ties?: Women in Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1870.