The Nineteenth-Century Fisheries of the Hudson's Bay Company Trading Posts on Lake Superior: a Biogeographical Study

1984 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Goodier
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Trading Posts ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

scholarly journals From Rupert’s Land to Canada West: Hudson’s Bay Company Families and Representations of Indigeneity in Small-Town Ontario, 1840–1980

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-97
Author(s):  
Krista Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Trading Posts ◽  
Rupert's Land ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company ◽  
Canada West

By the mid-nineteenth century, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) officers were retiring in greater numbers with their Indigenous families outside Rupert’s Land. Much work has been done to uncover the experiences of fur trade families who remained at HBC trading posts or settled in what became the American and Canadian Wests, but there has been little research on those families who left for Britain or colonial Canada. In Canada West, the racial and gendered terrains of their new home communities were complex ones for Indigenous women and their children to navigate. They played roles in both the reification and subversion of racial and gendered imperial hierarchies, and thus came to occupy unexpected and even contradictory positions in family and local historical narratives.

‘The faithfulness of our dealings’: the correspondence between George Simpson and Ferdinand von Wrangell, 1838–48

Polar Record ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (207) ◽  
pp. 329-340
Author(s):  
Ian R. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company ◽  
Business Methods

AbstractBy an agreement in 1839, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Russian American Company established a framework for co-operation in their activities in Alaska and adjacent areas of Canada that lasted until the 1860s. The signatories to the agreement were George Simpson and Ferdinand von Wrangell. These men were prominent in the management of the co-operation and this was facilitated by their mutual trust and friendship. An examination of their correspondence affords insights into business methods in a cross-cultural environment in the mid-nineteenth century, and into the extent to which their personal relations influenced major decisions in economics and politics with regard to the areas of activity of both companies.

Family allowances in the Canadian Arctic

Polar Record ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (43) ◽  
pp. 345-347
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Chant Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Trading Posts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Allowances ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Family allowances for all Canadian children under 16 years of age were instituted in 1944. The amount per child varies from $5.00 to $8.00 per month, according to the age of the child and the number of children in the family. In the well-settled parts of the Dominion, the allowances are paid by cheque each month to the mother of the family. In isolated areas, such as the Arctic, the allowances are paid “in kind”; in other words, the family are allowed to purchase goods from their usual trader up to the amount to which they are entitled. In the Canadian Eastern Arctic nearly all trading posts are maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company. In order to report the number of Eskimo children in the families, registrars and sub-registrars are appointed in the various areas. In localities where detachments of Royal Canadian Mounted Police are posted, a police officer acts as the registrar. In other localities the trader or traders act as sub-registrars. The Eskimo families notify one or other of these officials as soon as possible after a new baby is born, that is, when they next visit the trading post or settlement.

From Labrador to Leipzig: Film and Infrastructures Along the Fur Trail

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Webb Jekanowski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Trading Posts ◽  
Peuples Autochtones ◽  
Le Canada ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Background: Since 1919, the Hudson’s Bay Company has sponsored films to document and advertise its trading operations. Films such as Hudson’s Bay Company Centenary Celebrations (1919), The Heritage of Adventure (1920), and Leipzig Exhibition footage (1930) offered views of North American landscapes and Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts and department stores alongside ethnographic footage of Indigenous Peoples. Analysis: Drawing on archival research conducted at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives and textual film analysis of these “fur films,” this article theorizes their production and circulation within settler visual culture. Conclusions and implications: Tracing the films’ paths from the Eastern Arctic to Montréal, and from London, England, to Leipzig, Germany, this article demonstrates how these moving pictures participate in the entanglement of settler and infrastructural projects that characterize early twentieth-century Canada. Contexte : Depuis 1919, la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson a commandité des films pour rendre compte de ses opérations commerciales et pour faire connaître celles-ci. Des films comme Hudson’s Bay Company Centenary Celebrations (1919), The Heritage of Adventure (1920), et Leipzig Exhibition Footage (1930) offrent des perspectives sur des paysages nord-américains et sur les postes de traite et les magasins à rayons de la Compagnie ainsi que des scènes de peuples autochtones à valeur ethnographique. Analyse : Cet article se fonde sur une recherche menée aux Archives de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson et sur une analyse textuelle de « films à fourrures » pour examiner la production et la circulation de ces derniers dans un contexte de culture visuelle colonisatrice. Conclusions et implications : Cet article retrace les parcours de ces films de l’Arctique de l’Est jusqu’à Montréal, et de Londres, Angleterre jusqu’à Leipzig, Allemagne, en démontrant comment ceux-ci contribuent à l’enchevêtrement de projets coloniaux et infrastructurels qui caractérise le Canada au début du 20e siècle.  

Discouraging the Use of a Common Resource: The Crees of Saskatchewan

1981 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Harper-Fender
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Economic Study ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Economic Adjustment ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Common Resource ◽  
Fur Traders ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

The Crees of Saskatchewan adjusted their economic life in reaction to their long and interdependent relationship with European fur traders. For the period from the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, this paper examines one aspect of the Crees' economic adjustment to the fur trade, the limiting of access to the land and its resources to conserve the fragile supply of furbearmg animals. Hudson's Bay Company documents and studies by anthropologists provide the basis for this economic study.

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