Hudson's Bay Company

Discusses J. A. Johnson's belief that Indians living on Hudson's Bay land were not included in the proclamation.

Image of the S.S. Marquis. Written on front of photo at top: "At the close of the Rebellion the Marquis left Fort Pitt for the Grand Rapids at 2:30 on the 4th of July 1885 having on board the following troops. 90th Battalion, Winnipeg Rifles, The Little Black Devils, 232 officers and [illegible]; 10th Royal Grenadiers, Toronto, 190 officers and men; part of the Winnipeg Light Infantry, 50 officers and men; arriving Battleford at 3 a.m., 5th of July, Prince Albert 8:30 a.m.

Book review of: The Same as Yesterday by Joanne Drake-Terry. Scroll down to page 76 to read article.

Brief profile of David Thompson's work as a trader, explorer, map-maker and writer and discussion of the latest, affordable editions of his writings.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2015.

Copies of transcripts pertaining to the expiry of the Agreement by which the North West Company was constituted. Secret negotiations between the two companies commenced with George Moffat of Montreal, representing the Northwester Wintering Partners, approaching Lady Selkirk through her friend Samuel Gale, Jr., to ascertain whether or not the Hudson's Bay Company would become the Northwester's agent, supplying their outfits and selling their furs.

Focuses on the reports from an undercover agent from the Department of Indian Affairs.

Authors present two different viewpoints on the Battle. Bryce regards it as a massacre, while Bell adopts a more neutral stance.

The Reader gathers texts with differing perspectives to narrate the "battle" between armed settlers and armed Métis buffalo hunters on June 19th, 1816. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 73.

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2015.

Presents a speech presented at the 11th Annual National Land Claims Workshop, October 2003.

Correspondence between the commanding officers of the United States troops in Minnesota and the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Red River regarding the Sioux refugees in the British territory (which would become Canada).

Investigation shows mortality rate considerably less than was previously thought.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1985. Note: Print quality of thesis is poor.

Examines the current scholarship of colonialism by looking at three aspects of Northwest coast history: geopolitical recording and transposition of information, the introduction and distribution of disease, and the profits of fur trade.

Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2005.

Comments on the treaty relationship between the government, First Nations and other Canadians. Duration: 13:17.

Summarizes the trading days along the Souris River and comments on the posts that operated for varying lengths of time above the mouth of the Souris.

Looks at how Hudson's Bay Company traders viewed the Algonquian belief in the cannibal spirit, windigo.

Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan. Images include: Coursing an Antelope; (More Bear Stories) Look Before You Leap; Fish and Game Plentiful; and His First Experience of Pemmican. Published in Harper's Weekly, Supplement, July 7, 1877.

Looks at the history and milestones of St. Peter's school in Hay River, NWT, which opened in 1894.

Photograph of buildings, including teepee at Stanley Hudson's Bay post from across lake. Also visible is a man and canoes on the shore. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge, 1919.

This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to freighting 160 tons of furs and lumber by steamboat to Prince Albert, North West Territories.

Historical note:

Focuses on the dynamics present in the creation of the store and its first decade of operation.

Considers several factors affecting intermarriage: geography, law, morality, race and sexuality. Chapter 1 from Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law edited by John P. S. McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn.

Looks at the basis of a mobility model for epidemic processes and applies it to the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic among the Cree and Métis people within certain Hudson's Bay Company posts.

Book review of: The Subarctic Fur Trade edited by Shepard Krech.

Book review of: The Subarctic Indians and the Fur Trade, 1680-1860 by J. Colin Yerbury.

Book review of: The Subarctic Indians and the Fur Trade 1680-1860 by J. C. Yerbury. Scroll down to page 86 to read review.

Excerpt from Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. LXXXIV, March, 1892, No. DII at pages 491 to 510.

Book review of: Telling It to the Judge by Arthur J. Ray.

Examines the relationship between the Coast Tsimshians, Chief Legaic and the Hudson Bay Company.

Looks at the familial relationships which developed in the community of Île à la Crosse as well as those established with representatives of the fur trade and the Church. Introduction and Chapter 1 of: One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan.

Concentrates on the complex relationship between fur traders and the Salish nations residing in the Columbia and Fraser River valleys.

Brief description taken from memoirs of W.J. McLean, Hudson's Bay Company Factor, written during the North West Resistance of 1885.

Attempts to map out the most likely routes taken through the lands of the Basquia, Sturgeon, and Pegogamaw Crees.

Photocopied page showing a sketch of Touchwood Hills Post in 1861, and a sketch of Fort Pelly from [1876]. Photocopied page from Canadian Geographic Journal, n.d.

Paper establishes the use of methodology that increases the accuracy in understanding historic infectious disease episodes.

Archaeology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2009.