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	Baiki
		Commercial trappers, sealers and whalers from Russia and North America bring Alaska's wild life and its Native Peoples to the same point of extinction.
		Alaska is "purchased" by the United States from Russia for $7,200,000.
		Due to non-Native commercial whaling and hunting practices and increased immigration, game is severely depleted in parts of Alaska and NW Canada and many Inuit and Yup'iks are starving.
	members.tripod.com /Baiki/alaska.htm (648 words)

	Alaska Airlines Historical Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Alaska Airlines fleet of 102 Boeing jets is one of the youngest among all major airlines.
		In the late 1960s, Alaska strengthened its operating base by merging with Alaska Coastal-Ellis and Cordova airlines, legendary Southeast Alaska carriers owned by aviation pioneers Shell Simmons, Bob Ellis and Mudhole Smith.
		Alaska is still differentiating itself: offering more flights than any competitor in almost every market it serves; providing a superior level of customer service; and pioneering technologies that improve on-time performance and expand safety margins.
	www.alaskaair.com /www2/company/History/Overview.asp (620 words)

	About Alaska Commercial Co.
		In 1922, the Company was sold to a group of employees and re-named the Northern Commercial Company.
		In November, 1992, Alaska Commercial Company was purchased from CEDC by The North West Company (NWC).
		Alaska Commercial Company, the largest Alaskan rural retailer, was joined with The North West Company, the largest Canadian rural retailer.
	www.alaskacommercial.com /AboutAC/AboutAC.html (573 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alaska
		Alexander Baranof, who, in 1790, became general manager of the company, was for more than a quarter of a century the presiding genius of a commerce which extended to California and the Sandwich islands as well as to china.
		According to the census of 1900, Alaska embraces, inclusive of the islands, 590,804 square miles.
		Alaska, though called a territory, is properly known as the "District of Alaska".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01246b.htm (4616 words)

	Alaska Miners Association - Reference Material
		Alaska and Russia share a very special relationship and companies wishing to do business in the eastern half of Russia should strongly consider locating their Russia contact office in Alaska.
		Companies interested in placer mining or in selling supplies to this part of the industry will find Alaska and eastern Russia to be two pages of the same book.
		The Alaska Commercial Company operating in Alaska today is a descendent of a Russian company and advertises as operating "Since 1867," the year Secretary Seward bought Alaska from Russia.
	www.alaskaminers.org /art6.html (1531 words)

	Alaska Commercial Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alaska Commercial Company was a company that operated retail stores in Alaska during the early period of Alaska's ownership by the United States.
		The equipment and machinery division was sold to a company from Seattle, Washington and the remaining eleven rural stores were sold to the Community Enterprise Development Corporation of Alaska (CEDC) and were renamed Alaska Commercial Company.
		In November, 1992, Alaska Commercial Company was purchased from CEDC by the North West Company, a company separated from the Hudson's Bay Company of Canada to specialize in rural retail stores, to form the largest operator of rural stores in North America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaska_Commercial_Company (351 words)

	Chena River Waterfront: Section 4.4 Northern Commercial Company Dock
		The company had been formed in 1900, through a division of the Alaska Commercial Company, the Seattle-Yukon Transportation Company, the Alaska Exploration Company, and the Empire Line, brought about by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
		The riverfront was used by the company from 1903 on, but analysis of historical photographs suggests that not even temporary docks were built in the first two years of the company's presence.
		While this dock is usually referred to as the NC Co. Dock and indeed had "N.C. CO." painted on its roof as early as 1906, the structure was built by and belonged to NC Co.'s "sister company," the Northern Navigation Company.
	www.alaska.net /~nlur/barnproj/report/CHAP4/Ch4S4.htm (3085 words)

	The History of Saint Paul, Alaska - ExploreNorth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1788, the Russian American Company enslaved and relocated Aleuts from Siberia, Atka and Unalaska to the Pribilofs to hunt fur seals; their descendants live on the two islands today.
		In 1870, the Alaska Commercial Company was awarded a 20-year sealing lease by the U.S. Government, and provided housing, food and medical care to the Aleuts in exchange for seal harvesting.
		In 1890, a second 20-year lease was awarded to the North American Commercial Company, however, the fur seals had been severely over-harvested and poverty ensued.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/alaska/bl-StPaul.htm (439 words)

	Welcome to Alaska's Digital Archive
		This is generally accepted as the European discovery of Alaska because of the records and charts kept during the voyage.
		The act is amended in 1934 to permit commercial fishing for king salmon by Natives in the rivers under guidelines specified by the Secretary of Commerce.
		State of Alaska in 1989 that the state’s definition of rural is inconsistent with the federal definition in Title VIII of ANILCA.
	vilda.alaska.edu /site-templates/timeline.html (7785 words)

	Baiki - The Alaska Chronology
		Jackson believes that the Eskimos in northwest Alaska are starving and on the edge of calamity because of over-hunting by commercial Russian and American whalers and fishermen.
		As an inducement to stay in Alaska, they are given the three- to five-year option of a U.S. government loan of one hundred reindeer to start their own herds.
		The Alaska miners are no longer starving and the ship that was to transport them has gone to the Philippines to pick up troops for the Spanish-American War.
	www.baiki.org /content/alaskachron/1890.htm (2372 words)

	HTC: Dabovich on Alaska
		Alaska is a great region of land, with tremendous mountains and voluminous lakes and rivers covering nearly all there is of what we call the North in our Western Hemisphere.
		Alaska is rich in gold, copper, coal, oil and some stones which are not very precious.
		We do not question into the workings or intentions of any Company, but as citizens of a free and civilized country we deem it to be our direct duty to call attention to forgetfulness, in order that good may be done by correcting that which may not be exact.
	www.holy-trinity.org /history/1902/dabovich-alaska.html (2011 words)

	Alaska History and Cultural Studies - Interior Alaska - 1869-1896 STARS AND STRIPES UP THE RIVER
		Three men originally drawn to Alaska by the promise of gold were among those who helped to extend the Alaska Commercial Company's influence.
		Jackson's concept of dividing Alaska into separate territories for competing denominations was a curiously pragmatic approach that treated Alaska's Natives without much regard for their preferences, yet expressed concern for their moral and physical well-being.
		Occasionally the Alaska Commercial Company lost money when prospectors and miners failed to pay their bills, but it was a grubstake that led to another big strike on the Yukon River.
	www.akhistorycourse.org /articles/article.php?artID=58 (2955 words)

	Register of Alaska Commercial Company Records - MSS 0234
		Records (1895-1897) of the Alaska Commercial Company, a San Francisco trading company largely concerned with the Alaskan fur trade.
		The Alaska Commerical Co. was a San Francisco based company which bought out the assets of the Russian-American Co. in 1867.
		The company had offices at Unalaska on Unalaska Island, at Unga on Unga Island, and at St. Michael on the west coast of Alaska in the Norton Sound.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /speccoll/testing/html/mss0234a.html (182 words)

	Libby: The Sketches, Letters and Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands 1879-1880 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of the most readable accounts of the activities of the Alaska Commercial Company can be found in Libby: The Sketches, Letters and Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands 1879-1880, presented by Betty John, (Houghton Mifflin, 1989).
		This fascinating historical sketch is presented in diary form, complete with representations of “found objects, (feathers, crucifixes), photographs of A.C.C. sealing activity, and wildlife sketches.
		The first-person narrative personalizes the scantily documented period of late nineteenth century Alaska.
	www.muni.org /History/tif9.html (93 words)

	Kenai Fjords NP: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 4)
		Alaska Commercial Company logbooks indicate that the company operated a trading station at English Bay at least as early as 1872.
		The vessels owned by the fur companies and used principally to supply the trading stations were also used as tenders for Native sea otter camps, moving the hunters from one point to another during the season.
		Company expenditures show that crews traveled to the Barren Islands, the Gulf of Alaska, and to Nuchek.
	www.nps.gov /kefj/hrs/hrs4a.htm (728 words)

	Tsunamis and Volcanoes, Alaska Science Forum
		This article is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community.
		Zygmunt Kowalik of the University of Alaska's Institute of Marine Science, T.S. Murty of the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia, and I set out to produce a computer model of the 1883 event.
		With the historical record and the geologic evidence to go on, we would have a "postdiction" that could be verified.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF8/831.html (420 words)

	Fort Yukon, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Yukon is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.
		Fort Yukon is the hometown of Alaska Congressman Don Young.
		While the post was actually in Russian Alaska, the Hudson's Bay Company continued to trade there until expelled by the American traders in 1869, following the Alaska Purchase when the post was taken over by the Alaska Commercial Company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Yukon,_Alaska (625 words)

	Veterans Memorials to Visit in Alaska
		Bridge number 520 on the Alaska Highway spans the Gerstle River at Milepost 1392 of the Alaska Highway, 30 miles southeast of Delta Junction.
		Lewis Gerstle, who was president of the Alaska Commercial Company "..for the privilege granted me in his letter of introduction to the various factors for that company in the Territory, authorizing them to cash checks and render such other assistance as was in their power…".
		It is one of four of its style, typical of the era, on the Alaska Highway.
	www.ak-prepared.com /vetaffairs/blackveterans.htm (462 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Return to Spender)
		More often, though, the company's image was burnished by the service of its sales staff, such as the time in mid-1970s when a salesman in Fairbanks took back a $25 automobile tire, even though Nordstrom didn't sell tires.
		Northern Commercial Company (NCC) operated department stores, auto dealerships, and tire centers in Alaska, and in 1974 NCC sold three of those properties (in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Kenai) to Nordstrom.
		However, according to the Alaska Commercial Company (the parent of the NCC chain), the stores it sold to Nordstrom were already department stores, not tire stores, so the notion that a customer confused a new Nordstrom outlet for what had previously been a tire store doesn't quite gibe.
	www.snopes.com /business/consumer/nordstrom.asp (1624 words)

	Fresh Alaska Seafood Company - Big Blue Fisheries
		Alaska is well known for its unspoiled wilderness and clean water.
		This means you can purchase and use Alaska commercially caught salmon with the assurance that the fishery is conducted in an environmentally sound manner.
		Shrimp are commercially caught in the deep fiords near Sitka, cleaned at sea and delivered to us packaged in two pound containers with the shrimp frozen in water to protect from them from freezer burn.
	www.alaskasmokedfish.com /alaska-seafood-online.html (413 words)

	NWABSD Social Studies Curriculum: Alaska Studies
		It may be especially helpful for students to contrast their heritage with that of another Native group so they are aware of both the similarities and distinct differences between them.
		Write a profile of an Alaska Native who is involved in traditional activities, such as healing, subsistence hunting and fishing, or dancing.
		To understand Alaska's struggle to become a state and effects that statehood had on the political, social and economic climate.
	www.alaskool.org /native_ed/curriculum/NWABSD1/nwabsd_alaska.html (1556 words)

	Alaska History and Cultural Studies - America's Territory - Marine Transportation
		In 1908, a group known as the Alaska Syndicate, with funds from J.P. Morgan and the Guggenheim sons, bought the Alaska Steamship Company so they could mine copper in the Wrangell Mountains.
		Company ships took workers and supplies from West Coast ports to canneries at the beginning of the fishing season and took the workers and canned salmon back at the end of the season.
		The Alaska Packers Association, known for its "Star fleet" with ships named Star of India and Star of Alaska, operated a private fleet from 1893 to the 1950s.
	www.akhistorycourse.org /articles/article.php?artID=228 (889 words)

	McGrath Alaska [www.alaskatravel.com]
		In 1940, an airstrip was cleared, the FAA built a communications complex, and a school was opened.
		54.6% of the population are Alaska Native or part Native.
		Located in McGrath Alaska, Takusko House is heralded as the "finest lodging on the Iditarod Trail".
	www.alaskatravel.com /printer/p-mcgrath.html (880 words)

	Company \| Alaska Maritime Agencies
		For various historical reasons, our company is divided geographically into three sister companies that operate under the GSA umbrella.
		We are also a very politically active company believing that as ship agents, it is our responsibility to help maintain a healthy business and regulatory environment for our customers.
		Although commercial documentation for our Alaska ships can be done at any of our offices nationwide, most Bills of Lading are cut in our Seattle office for the convenience of Seattle based shippers.
	www.alaskamaritime.com /company.html (839 words)

	Teaching With Historic Places - St. George, Alaska, Reading #14
		Through the Army, the War Department administered Alaska from the purchase in 1867 until 1877, except for the Seal Islands, which were declared a special reservation for governmental purposes and placed under the control of the Department of Treasury.
		In 1903 the administration of the "seal islands" was transferred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, who placed the islands under the direct control of the Commissioner of Fisheries in 1908.
		During the tenure of the Alaska Commercial Company the seal industry yielded annual profits to the U.S. Government alone of $2,500,000.
	www.alaskool.org /native_ed/curriculum/st_george/stgeorge14.html (817 words)

	Welcome to Alaska Steel - Aluminum
		Alaska Steel Company, located on 7.5 acres in Anchorage, is a full line steel and aluminum distributor with a rebar fabrication division on site.
		Our seasoned sales staff and purchasing department has years of arctic weather experience and technical knowledge that is required to handle projects in Alaska.
		This coupled with a broad range of inventory has allowed Alaska Steel to build long-term relationships with companies in key segments of the Alaska market.
	www.alaskasteel.com (185 words)

	AK Hisotry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alaska Natives, Russians, and the British used river transportation long before Americans introduced steamboats to Alaska's rivers.
		This also impacted Alaska's population with the amount of Miners that ventured out to the Klondike, the Nome Gold Rush and the Fairbanks' Gold Rushes with steamboats and other types of transportation.
		Sternwheelers became one of Alaska's main types of transportation during the gold rushes.
	www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us /Portfolios/janessaw/akhistory.htm (935 words)

	McGrath Alaska
		McGrath is located 221 miles northwest of Anchorage and 269 miles southwest of Fairbanks in Interior Alaska.
		In 1937, the Alaska Commercial Company opened a store at the new location.
		The lodge is named after the merging of the Takotna and mighty Kuskokwim rivers.
	www.alaskatravel.com /alaska/mcgrath.html (879 words)

	SitNews - Commercial Fishing Company Pleads Guilty; Pays $500,000 Fine
		Anchorage, Alaska - Commercial fishing company Unimak Fisheries, LLC, operator of the Fishing Trawler "Unimak" pleaded guilty and was sentenced January 14th in U.S. District Court for intentionally under-reporting the amount of "by-catch" halibut brought aboard the Unimak during the 1999 and 2000 groundfish seasons in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.
		Zubko, Rebecca Irene Fisheries, LLC, which operates a groundfish vessel similar to the F/V Unimak in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska was found guilty of a civil violation for under-reporting halibut by-catch and ordered to pay a fine of $240,000 and undergo a 60-day suspension of its groundfish permit during the 2005 season.
		The case was investigated by NMFS Special Agents of the Office for Enforcement and prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska and the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
	www.sitnews.us /0105news/012405/012405_unimak.html (522 words)

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