The Merchant John Askin: Furs and Empire at British Michilimackinac By Justin M. Carroll

Abstract

Based on his 2011 dissertation, Justin M. Carroll has written an informative business biography of John Askin (1739–1815), an Irish-born British fur merchant who plied his trade in the second half of the eighteenth century at several Great Lakes sites: Michilimackinac/Makinac, Detroit, Grand Portage, Sault Ste. Marie, Albany, and Schenectady.