“Hudson’s Bay Company Indians”: Images of Native People and the Red River Pageant, 1920

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Peter Geller
Keyword(s):  
Red River ◽  
Native People ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Strangers on the Land

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-62
Author(s):  
Ryan Hall
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Native People ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
New Era ◽  
North West ◽  
Canadian North ◽  
Direct Trade ◽  
First Time ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

This chapter describes the period from 1781 until 1806. Following a devastating smallpox epidemic in 1781, the Blackfoot established direct trade with non-Native people for the first time, circumventing middlemen who had been devastated by the disease. While many embraced the opportunities for trade, they also carefully structured their relationships with newcomers, repurposing regional traditions of peaceful exchange and ceremony for a new era. At the same time, they deliberately prevented British (Hudson’s Bay Company) and Canadian (North West Company) traders from expanding their trade into new regions, especially the intermountain West, thus securing crucial advantages over their western and southern neighbors. By 1806, Blackfoot people had become one of the most powerful and expansive Indigenous polities in North America.

scholarly journals Keeping Loyalty and Regulating Insubordination: Freemen and the Edmonton House Fur Trade, 1821-1828

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hereward Longley
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
Columbia River ◽  
Red River ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
The West ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

This paper examines the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Edmonton House Journals and district reports from 1820-1829 to assess the relationship between the HBC and Freemen over the decade immediately following the merger between the HBC and Northwest Company (NWC). I argue that although numbers of Freemen associated with Edmonton House decreased substantially as Freemen moved to the Red River and Columbia River regions after the merger, Freemen associated with Edmonton House provided an essential supply of food and fur that bolstered both the viability and profitability of the post, and served as an invaluable buffer between the HBC and Indigenous peoples. Freemen often moved fluidly between bush and post, procuring food and furs for the fort, at times engaging in contract labour around the fort, or accompanying trapping and exploration missions alongside fort employees. By the end of the decade, it appears that many Freemen were able to eliminate their debts with the HBC and establish more autonomous communities. In the fort Edmonton region, the 1820s can perhaps be viewed as a point of emergence for Freemen communities as they gained greater autonomy from fur trade companies and increased the size of their families. Growth in the independence and size of Freemen bands in the 1820s may be considered as a root of Métis ethnogenesis in the West.

scholarly journals The Rules of Red River: The Council of Assiniboia and its Impact on the Colony, 1820-1869

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly Laudicina
Keyword(s):  
Red River ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

The Council of Assiniboia, whose members were appointed by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), held administrative, judicial and legislative powers over the Red River colony. The Council's main challenge was to remain relevant to the Red River settlers while simultaneously adhering to the priorities of the HBC. Through numerous petitions and occasional riots the population of Red River acquired both representation and power in the Council. The aim of this paper is to discuss the relations of power underlying the transformation of not only the Council, but of the colony as a whole.

Between Empires

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Ryan Hall
Keyword(s):  
Missouri River ◽  
Native People ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
North West ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
First Time ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

In 1821, the Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Company merged, robbing Native people like the Blackfoot of trade leverage by forcing them to trade with only one partner. At the same time, American and Canadian traders made inroads with Indigenous nations in the intermountain West, eroding Blackfoot advantages over their neighbors. Facing the loss of their strategic advantages, Blackfoot people responded by welcoming American traders from the American Fur Company to the upper Missouri River for the first time in 1830, thus securing themselves a privileged position and reasserting themselves as the region’s dominant power. Their borderlands position gave them leverage over non-Native traders and provided crucial mobility and flexibility that other Native people lacked.

scholarly journals THE FREEZING OF INSECTS

1898 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 287-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry H. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
North West ◽  
Copper Mines ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

In the 22nd Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, being that for 1891, there appeared a paper from my pen under the title “Can Insects Survive Freezing?”I have recently come across further records of observations upon this subject, and deem them of sufficient interest to be republished in the Canadian Entomologist.In looking over and interesting book of travels entitled “A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north-west passage, etc., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772, by Samuel Hearne,” published in 1796, I came across the following interesting notes on page 397

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