C. Bennett Dam; Dan Savard of the Royal British Columbia Museum; Louis Campeau of the Canadian Museum of Civilization; Kathryn Bridge of the British Columbia Archives; Karen Haughian of Nuage Editions for allowing me to use the photograph of Jean Steinbeck's birchbark journal; Larry Mensching of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha; the staff of the Special Collections Department at the Vancouver Public [...] He is certainly the first documented person to cross the continent, and certainly the first to return to disseminate news of his crossing to the rest of the world. [...] A host of others fol- lowed, expanding the original English knowledge of the bay and ex- ploring possible ways out of it toward the west or north - Thomas Button in 1612-13; William Baffin and Robert Bylot to the north in 1612-16; Luke Foxe in 1631; Thomas James the same year; not to mention the efforts of the Dane Jens Munk in 1624, who reached the west side of Hudson Bay. [...] The knowledge of the bay and the realization that it had a wealth all its own culminated in the decision by the English to establish the Hudson's Bay Company, chartered by Charles II in 1670. [...] After an initial foray in the famous Nonsuch in 1668, when Groseilliers reached the mouth of the Rupert River at the southern end of James Bay and returned to England with a cargo of furs, the Hudson's Bay Company was chartered in 1670, with rights granted by the English king to all of the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, which they named Rupert's Land.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 9
- Illustration Credits 9
- Author's Note 10
- A Real Canadian Hero 11
- 1. Lure of the Western Sea 20
- 2. An Inland Journey 30
- 3. To Undertake the Perilous Enterprise 40
- 4. You Will Readily Conjecture 52
- 5. Determined on Undertaking a Voyage of Discovery 74
- 6. All of Opinion That It Was the Tide 82
- 7. My Expedition Is Hardly Spoken Of 140
- 8. To Traffick with the Russians 156
- 9. From Canada by Land 168
- 10. Two Caesars in Rome One Must Remove 234
- 11. Voyages from Montreal 254
- 12. Opening this Intercourse between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 268
- 13. Little Doubt of a Continued Sea 284
- 14. To Seize All We Possessed 296
- Notes 315
- Sources and Further Reading 317
- Index 320
- A 320
- B 320
- C 320
- D 320
- E 320
- F 320
- G 321
- H 321
- I 321
- J 321
- K 321
- L 321
- M 322
- N 322
- O 322
- P 322
- Q 323
- R 323
- S 323
- T 323
- U 323
- V 323
- W 323
- Y 323
- Z 323
