Hudson's Bay Company

This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to an encounter with 300 Sioux Indians from the United States at Fort Ellice. First part of story. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

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This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to an encounter with 300 Sioux Indians from the United States at Fort Ellice. Second part of story. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

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This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to an encounter with 300 Sioux Indians from the United States at Fort Ellice. Third part of story. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

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Image of Old Fort Walsh in foreground; trees and landscape in background. Summer scene. Photograph possibly from a calendar.

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Fort Walsh, located in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, 170 km SE of present-day Swift Current, SK, was an early North-West Mounted Police post constructed in 1875 by men under the command of Inspector James Walsh, for whom it was named.

A photograph of the old trading post in village of Mamihk on Red Earth Reserve, approx. 65 miles east of Nipawin, in Carrot River valley of east central Sask. This was either the Hudson's Bay store or Huttons' store. Sources vary as to whether Bert Hutton bought out the HBC store.

Comments on a group of women who knit with qiviut (muskox hair), a fiber which is eight times warmer than sheep's wool. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.

Profiles men who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company and gives the reasons why some chose to stay and adapt rather than return home.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Film relates why the Hudson's Bay Company's 300th anniversary was not an occasion for joy for the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. Duration: 42:22.

Book review of L'Ouest Canadian, sa découverte par le Sieur de la Vérendrye by L'Abbé G. Dugas. Entire issue on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 47.

Publication of the Manitoba Metis Lands Commission, with articles on English / French explorers and fur traders, the Pemmican War, the Battle of Seven Oaks, the Manitoba Lands Act, and a questionnaire relating to the study of Metish Lands Claims.

"Indian version" of the origins of the company. Includes synopsis. This segment runs for 13 minutes and is followed by news stories. Duration: 49:28

The history of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, is detailed from pre-contact to the arrival of Jean Etienne Waden, first European in the La Ronge area, to present-day businesses, schools and churches in the town; numerous photographs.

Discusses the significance of eight wooden plaques in the MacFarlane collection at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and how they represent the earliest surviving Inuvialuit graphic art.

Recollections of the Hudson's Bay Company's supply ship's Captain Mack about the R.M.S. Nascopie (1911-1947).

On information card: Paniqutaupik, 18 years old, an employee at the Craft Shop; photograph [in Craft Shop].

Includes dispatches between Governor General Head and the secretary of state for the colonies, Edward Bulwer Lytton as well letters between Lytton and officials of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Comments on the negotiation and compensation given to specific claims.

Information on card: Partition between rooms one and two of La Loche House where they meet the east wall of the building. Methy Portage, SK.

Discusses how Pasquatinow was a productive hunting and trapping ground for the Red Earth Cree until the late 1930s when the provinicial government and the Hudson's Bay Company began to place restrictions on land use.

This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to fine fur trapping in The Pas, Manitoba area in the spring.

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Book review of: Crosscultural Homicide in the North American Fur Trade by John Phillip Reid.

Describes the travels and work of the artist and adventurer who was commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) to sketch portraits of Indigenous peoples. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 102.

Image of buildings with Pelican Lake in background. Description reads: "Pelican Narrows, Hudson's Bay Post. Mr. Belcher, Hudson's Bay Company Factor. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge."

Book review of: Pemmican Empire by George Colpitts.

On information card: (L-R) Leo Satoksky - left (clerk) DNA, Luke Essaluk - center (clerk) DNA, Ches. Russell - right (hotel) at Hudson's Bay Co. store". Rankin Inlet, N.W.T.

Author reflects on his fur trade posting on Baffin Island and in northern Quebec. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 56.

Describes the challenges faced by the school master during the 1833-1849 period. This era featured changes in Hudson's Bay Company policy regarding marriage and race.

Draws on various historical documents and Turnor’s journal to describe the expedition to survey Rupert’s Land for the Hudson’s Bay Company in the late 1770s and early 1780s. Discusses the roles David Thompson and Peter Fiddler. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 57.

Archival Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg, 2000.

Looks at competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and American traders from the Columbia Fur Company.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1975.

Papers written by the Pioneers of Rupert's Land Executive Committee regarding who they were and there claims regarding rights. The Pioneers of Rupert's Land was an advocacy and commemorative organization composed of the white settlers (and some of there descendants) of Rupert's Land who resided there prior to the transfer to Canada in 1870. These papers discuss their scrip claims, and problems with receiving what they regarded as promised to them under the Manitoba and Northwest Territories acts. Includes some discussion of Metis scrip in relation as well.

Historical overview of the First Nations of the plains.

Comments on the reactions of the meetings between Native Americans and the explorers and the importance these interactions were to future relations.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2002.

"Containing a full description of that settlement, and the adjacent country; and likewise of the Fur Trade, with hints for its improvement, &c. &c. to which are added, remarks and observations made in the inland parts, during a residence of near four years; a specimen of five Indian languages; and a journal of a journey from Montreal to New York."

Features exhibits and presentations pertaining to the history of the Hudson's Bay Company in the region and the fur trade of the 1700s.

Examines the forces that caused both the European trading companies and trappers to disregard the decline in beaver population.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Waterloo, 2016.

This book describes Petitot's explorations of the Mackenzie and Anderson Rivers and the western branch of the Yukon River. It also provides an account of Petitot's travels to the various forts such as Fort MacPerson and his encounters with protestant missionaries who tried to dissuade him from preaching in their territory.

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Argues that the decline of marriages between European officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and Métis women before 1870 was caused by the creation of a capitalistic labour market and not racism as regarded largely due to Sylvia Van Kirk's book, Many Tender Ties.