Hudson's Bay Company

Argues that Indigenous peoples bought more European goods from the Hudson's Bay Company post as fur prices went up, and also increased trapping for trade purposes.

Book review of: Trading Beyond the Mountains by Richard Somerset Mackie.

Environmental Studies in Northern Environments and Culture Thesis (MES)—Lakehead University, 2012.

Report develops the perspective of Kehewin Cree Nation regarding the area within their traditional lands that is currently being taken up for the purpose of developing the ENG project.

Written by the Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company who was taken hostage by Big Bear, recounts events that took place during the spring of 1885.

Papers of Willie Traill. Includes accounts of bison hunting during the nineteenth century, observations on Dakota culture, and the fur trade. Much of the account seems to take place in Minnesota and North Dakota as well as Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Hand drawn map using pencil and blue ink by Bruce Peel, showing the trails and landmarks encompassing the area between Crow's Nest Pass, AB and Fort Garry, MB.

Historical note:

Map drawn by Bruce Peel, cataloguer of the Adam Shortt Collection, Main Library, University of Saskatchewan between 1946-1951.

Looks at how trading, cohabitation, and war-making created culturally constructed inter-community identities between Chipewyan natives and their Inuit neighbors in the eighteenth century.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1982.

Looks at the life of suppliers, the fur trappers, for the fur trade companies operating in Saskatchewan.

Publication relating to pre-contact, colonization, treaties and modern-day eras of Aboriginal life in Manitoba. Includes detailed descriptions of the treaty signings of 1871.

Contends that the Canadian government acted criminally by not upholding their end of Treaty Six.

Reprint of an article by Samuel Bray, surveyor, describing his experiences travelling in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the autumn of 1894. Included is an illustration of Cree writing.

Describes how two Inuit prisoners were bought from their Albany River captors by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1800's and used in posts around James Bay. (Abstract in French/English, article in French only)

This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to his bear hunting experiences with Robert Bear, an excellent hunter and a friend of Beatty's. Their hunting routes included Fairford House and Stoney Creek district. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

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The first article comments on the cost of land settlements with aboriginals in the United States, with the author's hope that the Canadian government will resolve these claims in the manner the United States government has, no matter the financial cost.

Comments on a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor and map-maker who travelled 90,000 kilometres and mapped 4.9 million square kilometres of North America. Duration: 58:14.

On information card: Vertical post of partition and east wall with floor joists on the north side of the partition. Logs from the roof are overlying the partition. Methy Portage, SK.

Examines how, in spite of increasingly hostile Colonial, then Canadian government relations toward First Nations people, they still maintained a strong attachment to the monarchy.

Book review of: The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown, Robert Brightman.

Looks at the history of Thanadelthur, a young Dene women who is famous for her involvement in the early Canadian fur trade, linking together the Hudson's Bay Company and northern Dene peoples living west of Hudson's Bay.

Looks at the threat to the health of Inuit by whalers and traders and the contribution made by Inuit to public health policy.

Documents the daily activities of the Cree people who lived and worked at the fur trade post known locally as Kihci-wâskâhikan or Great House.

Book review of: Voices From Hudson Bay by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts.

Book review of: Voices from Hudson Bay edited by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts.

This file consists of 7 items, including typed copies of articles with handwritten notes about Henry John Moberly. Item titles are: I. H.J. Moberly (2p); II. Fort Edmonton in the Fifties (6p); III. The Missing Blacksmith (2p); IV. Mixing It Up With Running Wolf (5p); V. Koominakoos (3p); VI. Dutch Henry (2p); VII. Copy of letter from Henry John Moberly to George Walton, June 10, 1929 (1p).

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This file consists of 7 items, including a newspaper article and typed copies of stories told by or about William McKay. The file also contains second and third copies of some of these items.

Examines the political and economic motives of both the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and the Northwest Company (NWC), their role in the development of capitalism in North America, and how these factors affected their labour relations policies and practices. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 1.

Article describes the history and different modes of water transportation in early Canada.

"This article traces the transformation of the Muskego Cree and the Métis peoples of the district from independent traders, hunters, and wage labourers to a colonized people with diminished economic opportunities."

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

Examines evidence, from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, on how the involvement in the fur trade altered the social and economic lives of the Western James Bay Cree.

Photograph of Chief Factor at Fort Pitt in 1885; taken in a photo studio. Caption: "W.J. McLean, the HBC factor, realized that Pitt was indefensible and agreed to surrender voluntarily to Wandering Spirit." From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser. William James McLean (1841-1929) was in command of the Hudson's Bay Company trading posts at Fort Qu'Appelle, Ile a la Crosse and Fort Pitt.

Comments on the new experiences, including moving pictures and fireworks, brought to Inuit on the coast of the Foxe Peninsula in the winter of 1921-22. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.

This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to his patient pursuit of a silver fox, the origin of 'made beaver' currency, and Beatty's total fur hunt run for the winter. Item found within folder 'Reginald Bird Beatty Papers.'

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Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks between a coalition of Métis and North West Company forces and a party of Scottish settlers and Hudson's Bay Company personnel.

Focuses on the historical role of Métis women and revitalization of their culture.

This file contains the historical brochure, "Wood Mountain National Park." Development of this park began in 1965. The booklet discusses the areas early history as a HBC post, NWMP post, and gathering place for "Souix" Indians escaping the American Cavalry.

A photograph of the woods behind the Hudson's Bay Company Post at Montreal Lake. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Follows history of the blanket to North America and the use of the Hudson's Bay Company point blanket by Canadian artist Sonny Assu.

Book review of: Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958 by Chad Reimer.

Book review of: A Year Inland edited by Barbara Belyea.

Comments on the interpretation of aboriginal history at fur-trade sites, and the challenge to move beyond the idealized and simplified interpretations of the past.

Discusses the only surviving medical ledgers in the 200-year history of the Hudson's Bay Company, which span the years 1846 to 1852 at the post; records indicate five per cent of case records were for Aboriginal peoples.

Includes information on the history of the Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade, as well as virtual tour, activities, and visitor information dealing with the site.