Ted Binnema is a Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of “Enlightened Zeal”: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670 to 1870 (University of Toronto Press, 2014), but his most recent is Ted Binnema and Gerhard Ends, eds., The Hudson’s Bay Company Edmonton House Journals: Including the Peigan Post, 1826-1834 (Historical Society of Alberta, 2020).