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THE REMARKABLE HISTORY
OF THE
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
INCLUDING THAT OF
The French Traders ofNorth-Western Canada
and of the North-West, X Y, and
Astor Fur Companies
BY
GEORGE BRYCE, M.A., LL.D.
PROFESSOR IN MANITOBA COLLEGE,WINNIPEG; DÉLÉGUÉ RÉGIONAL DEL'ALLIANCE SCIENTIFIQUE DE PARIS; MEMBER OF GENERAL COMMITTEE OFBRITISH ASSOCIATION; FELLOW OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OFSCIENCE; PRESIDENT ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA(1909); MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION ON CANADIAN RESOURCES (1909);MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION (1910);AUTHOR OF "MANITOBA" (1882); "SHORT HISTORY OF CANADIAN PEOPLE"(1887), MAKERS OF CANADA SERIES (MACKENZIE, SELKIRK AND SIMPSON);"ROMANTIC SETTLEMENT OF LORD SELKIRK'S COLONISTS" (1909); "CANADA"IN WINSOR'S NAR. AND CRIT. HIST. OF AMERICA, ETC., ETC.
THIRD EDITION
WITH NUMEROUS FULL-PAGEILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO.,LTD.
Four Great Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
PREFACE
The Hudson's Bay Company! What a record this name representsof British pluck and daring, of patient industry and hardy endurance,of wild adventure among savage Indian tribes, and of exposure to dangerby mountain, precipice, and seething torrent and wintry plain!
In two full centuries the Hudson's Bay Company, under itsoriginal Charter, undertook financial enterprises of the greatestmagnitude, promoted exploration and discovery, governed a vast domainin the northern part of the American Continent, and preserved to theBritish Empire the wide territory handed over to Canada in 1870. Fornearly a generatio