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Hudson's Bay Company Fur Trade Ledger
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122 p. textual records
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For more than 300 years the Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading stations lay scattered over the vast northern regions of Canada. Most of their stores -- formerly referred to as trading posts -- were located along the shores of Hudson Bay, James Bay, and the Arctic Ocean and throughout the western interior, including the Yukon. In 1840 the Hudson's Bay Company sent Robert Campbell into the Yukon River watershed for the first time. Between 1840 and 1852 he established trading posts at Fort Frances on Frances Lake, Pelly Banks along the Pelly River and Fort Selkirk where the Pelly River meets the Yukon River. His final attempt at a viable trading post at Fort Selkirk was burned to the ground in 1852 by coastal Chilkats who felt threatened by Campbell's trading location. At this point the Hudson's Bay Company pulled out of the Yukon and did not have a presence in the Yukon for the next 86 years. The Hudson's Bay Company returned to the Yukon in 1938 opening stores at Fort Selkirk, Stewart and Whitehorse. The Fort Selkirk and Stewart stores closed in the early 1950s when the construction of the highway to Dawson City put an end to the sternwheelers on the Yukon River. The Whitehorse store closed in 1941. It re-opened in 1962 and operated until the mid 1980s.
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<form><textarea wrap class=datatext cols=80 rows=10>The ledger contains accounts of the Hudson's Bay Company Dunvegan fort with fort hunters and trappers. Many are identified by aboriginal names such as such as Komekocee Wan at tay, Annay, Attajay, Attah, Ta kee ay, Mah kee ay, Ah neh thir say, Ait hay, Ah nee hay, Nah kee hay, Ma ya see, Kan son day, Na Kee Ya Hay, Ah nit let thou day, Ah woe tsit tee ay, Appotay, At tha gay, Ah kou say and Nah gil lay. Others are identified by French names such as L'Eau, Hofs, Cadien, Grand Batard, La Glace, Pouce Coupe, Chartier, L'Aigle, Grosse Yeul, Petit Canard, Pied Caribou, Petit Garcon, Racine, Montaigner, Grosse Tete, Petit Pied, Tranquille, Foin, L'Oeil Blanc, Mortgnee, Fantasque, Sournois, Kankre, Sanko, Maragoin and Nesplatte. There is also an account for Widow Sancho prophet's Sister and an English hunter named Stuart. The ledgers disclose what goods were on hand at Dunvegan at the time and the kinds of furs being trapped in the area.</textarea></form>
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modified: 2006-03-30