Author: James IshamPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
James Isham's Observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743
Author: James IshamObservations on Hudsons Bay, 1743
Author: James IshamPublisher:
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Category : Hudson Bay
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
James Isham's Observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743 and Notes and Observations on a Book Entitled A Voyage to Hudsons Bay in the Dobbs Galley, 1749
Author: Edwin Ernest RichPublisher:
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Category : Northwest, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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James Isham's Observations on Hudson's Bay, 1743, and Notes and Observations on a Book Entitled "A Voyage to Hudson Bay in the Dobbs Galley 1749"
Author: James IshamPublisher: Kraus International Publications
ISBN: 9780811531863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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James Isham's Observations on Hudsons Bayn 1743
Author: James IshamJames Isham's Observations on Hudson's Bay, 1743
Author: James IshamPublisher:
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Category : Cree language
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
James Isham's Observations on Hudson's Bay 1743 [microform] : and Notes and Observations on a Book Entitled A Voyage to Hudson's Bay in the Dobbs Galley, 1749
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Author: James Isham, ca.Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Company
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Category : Fur trade
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Reprint of the 1949 edition. Introduction: account of Hudson's Bay Company affairs during Isham's period of service, 1732-61, with special reference to years 1741-49.
Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay
Author: Stuart HoustonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773569758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The authors show that meteorologic data and weather information recorded at the HBC trading posts over two centuries provide the largest and longest consecutive series available anywhere in North America, one that can help us understand the mechanisms and amount of climate change. They demonstrate that Hudson Bay is the second largest site of new bird species named by Linnaeus and reproduce some of George Edwards' colour paintings of these new species. Six informative appendices reveal how the invaluable HBC archives were transferred from London, England, to Winnipeg, correct previous misinterpretations of the collaboration and relative contributions of Thomas Hutchins and Andrew Graham, use two centuries of HBC fur returns to demonstrate the ten-year hare and lynx cycles, tell how the swan trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan, explain how the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada, and offer an extensive list of eighteenth-century Cree names for birds, mammals, and fish. Informative tables list the eighteenth-century surgeons at York Factory and give names and dates for the annual supply ships.
Lobsticks and Stone Cairns
Author: Richard Clarke DavisPublisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1895176883
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in this book also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in this book are "human landmarks" dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life.
Listening to the Fur Trade
Author: Daniel Robert LaxerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009820
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time. Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entailed gift-giving: reciprocity was performed with dances, songs, and firearm salutes. Indigenous protocols of ceremony and treaty-making were widely adopted by fur traders, who supplied materials and technologies that sometimes changed how these ceremonies sounded. Within trading companies, masters and servants were on opposite ends of the social ladder but shared songs in the canoes and lively dances during the long winters at the trading posts. While the fur trade was propelled by economic and political interests, Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.