This contingent , commanded by Donald McTavish ( Simon's first cousin ) and John McDonald of Garth , boarded the 350 - ton Isaac Todd , an armed merchantman built at Trois - Rivières , Quebec . They sailed to England with a load of ...
1 SIR JAMES HAYES Unlike most of the other HBC Adventurers , who had either died or parted with their holdings by the time the first dividend was declared , Hayes turned a tidy profit on the risky enterprise – though at least some of it ...
Peter Charles Newman. Munk and two crewmen were still alive . ... Next in line for the northern prize was the duo of Luke Foxe and Thomas James , whose nearly parallel tracks through Hudson Bay lent their voyages a strange echo effect .
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history.
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the...
Company of Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company During 1867-1874, On the...
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