Indigenous Peoples and the Hudson’s Bay Company on Vancouver Island

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

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.

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.  

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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