Format:
1 online resource (366 pages)
ISBN:
9780773569751
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series v.34
Content:
Where Peter Newman's best-selling trilogy captured the essence of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as a business empire, Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the company's early employees, drawing largely on materials in the HBC Winnipeg archives. C. Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary Houston make amends for two centuries of neglect of these collector-observers, showing that fur traders in isolated trading posts on Hudson Bay were involved in some of the earliest stirrings of science on the continent andd that the fur traders and Native people worked together in a remarkable symbiosis, beneficial to both parties.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Colour plates -- Acknowledgments -- Supplementary Natural History Documents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The European Connection -- 2 Alexander Light -- 3 James Isham -- 4 Humphrey Marten -- 5 Andrew Graham -- 6 Thomas Hutchins -- 7 Moses Norton -- 8 Samuel Hearne -- 9 Peter Fidler -- 10 Natural History -- 11 Climatology -- 12 In striking contrast: Charleston -- APPENDICES -- A: Sailing Ships to York Factory, 1716-1827 -- B: Provenance of Hudson's Bay Company Journals -- C: The Ten HBC Manuscripts of Graham and Hutchins -- D: Ten-Year Cycles -- E: How the HBC Swan Quill and Swan Skin Trade Almost Extirpated the Trumpeter Swan -- F: How the Canada Goose Got Its Name before There Was a Canada -- G: Cree Names for Natural History Species -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773522855
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780773522855
Language:
English
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