The Company

One of the funniest descriptions I've heard for Canada as a country is that it's really more of two resource extraction companies in a trenchcoat than a proper country. This book really highlighted just how true that may be.

As far as I'm concerned, this may as well be the definitive early history of Canada. I'm not knowledgeable enough about the era to fully comment on if it's a perfect representation of events, but it felt like a fair take when considering indigenous-European relations.

As an aside, it made it truly discouraging just how many buildings, towns, and monuments are still in place near where I live that are named after people (almost exclusively white folk) in this book.