Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company 1679-1684

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Author: Edwin Ernest "E E" Rich (1904-1979) editor Year: 1945-1946 Publisher: Published by the Champlain Society for the Hudson Bay Record Society Place: London Description: 2 volumes. xlvi+378+[x membership list] pages with frontispiece, figures, appendices and index. xlvii++368+[x list of members] pages with tables, figures, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering and insignia to spine. Introduction by G N Clark. Hudson Bay Record Society Volumes VIII and IX. First edition Limited edition numbers 228 and 135. For much of the 17th century the French, based on their colony of New France, operated a de facto monopoly in the North American fur trade. Two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers (Médard de Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers), Radisson's brother-in-law, learned from the Cree that the best fur country lay north and west of Lake Superior, and that there was a "frozen sea" still further north.[19] Assuming this was Hudson Bay, they sought French backing for a plan to set up a trading post on the Bay in order to reduce the cost of moving furs overland. According to Peter C. Newman, "concerned that exploration of the Hudson Bay route might shift the focus of the fur trade away from the St. Lawrence River, the French governor", Marquis d'Argenson (in office 1658–61), "refused to grant the coureurs des bois permission to scout the distant territory".[19] Despite this refusal

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