Hudson's Bay Company

Comments on the factors that have played important roles in British Columbia's legal history.

Collection of papers from the early 1800's including the interactions of an early European settler and soldier with Indigenous peoples at the time.

Book review of: Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885 by D. N. Sprague.

Story of the Montreal canoe, the largest birchbark vessel ever used in Canada, and its role in the fur trade. Includes links to Aboriginal canoe styles, transportation, voyageures and portaging, Sir George Simpson's Travels

Correspondence relating to information on the Capot River fort or Nut Lake House, located in the Kelvington-Nut Lake area of Saskatchewan. [Page 2 of reply from staff member of the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan missing].

Typed copy of a well-referenced paper presented to the Royal Society of Canada by Lawrence J. Burpee and printed in the Society's Transactions, Section 2, 1929. It discusses Kelsey's career with the Hudson's Bay Company and contains a number of brief mentions of encounters and trade with Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Cree, Athapaskan, Chipewyans and [Dogribs].

Depicts the life of a servant in the Hudson Bay Company (b. 1789) compared to the stereotypes of mixed blood peoples depicted by Hollywood.

For use in Grade 11 classroom. Excerpt from Shaping Canada: Our History: From Our Beginnings to the Present.

Chapter XII from "The Story of Saskatchewan and its People." The chapter is entitled "The Hudson's Bay Company" and is broken down in to the following sections to give some account of the history of the Hudson's Bay Company in Saskatchewan: "Radisson and Groselliers"; "Fabulous Fur"; "Naval Battle in Hudson's Bay"; "The Battle of Sevenoaks"; "Something About the H.B.CO in Saskatchewan"; "Lord Southesk at Fort Pelly"; "H.B., H.B.C. and Rum"; "Fort Ellice". Illustrations of various forts.

Looks at attitudes and factors involved in the resistance.

Analyzes three phases of relations among groups using historical sources including documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Winnipeg.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1988.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Utah State University, 2015.

Theology Thesis (D.Min.)--St. Stephen's College, 1999. Doctoral dissertation based on life of missionary James Evans.

Discusses the terms "settlement" and "community" and how they relate to contemporary Inuit residential places.

Political Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2004

On information card: Collection of the historic artifacts found at La Loche House including a brass shoe buckle, cufflinks, buttons, clay pipes and tinkle cones. Methy Portage, SK.

Examines the official attitudes and actions of the Colonial Office regarding native policy.

Examines the impact that familial relationships had on the evolution of both HBC and Métis communities.

Book review of: Commerce by a Frozen Sea by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis.

Book review of: Commerce by a Frozen Sea by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 143.

(Abstract in French and English, article in French) Examines how the Montagnais benefitted from competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and independent fur traders in this region and the methods employed by the Company while trying to control the market.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1997.

Book review of Company, Crown and Colony by Stephen Royle. Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 172.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 1976.

Book review of: Company of Adventurers by Peter C. Newman.

Book review of: Empire of the Bay: An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company by Peter C. Newman, edited by John Geiger with photographs by Kevin Fleming.

Studies fifty years (1821-1871) of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Albany District in present day Ontario.

Examines how the London Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company and Lord Selkirk used religion to create communities before the arrival of missionaries.

Book review of: Contact and Conflict by Robin Fisher.

Book review of: Contributions to Ojibwe Studies, Essays 1934-1972 by A. Irving Hallowell. Review located by scrolling to page 188.

Studies Tsimshian approach and response to Christianity.

Compares Cree Elder James Wesley's narrative account of Alexander Macdonald, HBC trader with documents from the Church Missionary Society and Hudson's Bay Company archive.

Looks at the need to import provisions to feed the growing population. Chapter from Papers of the 39th Algonquian Conference edited by Karl S. Hele, Regna Darnell.

Film explores historical overivew of the Coppermine community beginning with arrival of the missionaries, the tuberculosis epidemic and Dr. Russel Martin's fight for medical supplies from Ottawa. Duration: 57:07.

This file contains a carbon copy of a typescript of Laird's notes which give a detailed account of the individuals and incidents involved in the negotiations of the Qu'Appelle Treaty. The notes record the events, beginning on 8 September 1874 and concluding on 6 October 1874, which surrounded the treaty-making process.

Presents correspondence "to and from the Hudson's Bay Company regarding compensation for losses incurred during the Resistance."

Customs relating to death written about in Hudson's Bay Company journals from Île-à-la-Crosse between 1819-1827.

A photograph of a Cree chief and his Split Lake canoemen with Harris Leech, K.C. of Winnipeg during a trek of officials to Churchill, Manitoba, organized by the Hudson Bay Route Association (a.k.a. On-to-the-Bay Association)

A Cree hunter firing a trade gun, dressed in HBC clothing. Likely 19th century.

Recounts the founding and history of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post; discusses the post’s relationship with surrounding Indigenous communities. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 108.