Hudson Bay (Geographic Keyword)

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People of the Thick Fur Woods: Two Hundred Years of Bois Forte Chippewa Occupation of the Voyageurs National Park Area (2002)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report documents historical and archeological research regarding the historic use of the area now subsumed within Voyageurs National Park by members of the Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa Indians. It synthesizes historical and archeological data collected over a 16-year period by the author and Voyageurs National Park Cultural Resource Specialist Mary Graves. The period from 1736 through 1941 is the basic focus for research, with the period from 1880 to 1930 considered in greatest...

PROTEIN (CIEP) AND ORGANIC (FTIR) RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENT FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (PWF), IeKn-24, HUDSON BAY COUNTY, MANITOBA, CANADA (2016)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

In 1730, the Hudson’s Bay Company initiated the development of the Prince of Wales Fort II on Eskimo Point at the mouth of Churchill River and the Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, Canada. Construction of the stone fortification took over 40 years, during which Hudson’s Bay Company employees, including officers, tradesmen, and laborers, were present at the site. Activities at the fort included tasks related to survival (hunting, cutting wood, hauling water, etc.) and fur trading. The fort’s...