Hudson's Bay Company Adventures: Tales of Canada's Fur Traders

by Elle Andra-Warner

Overview

The early history of the Hudson’s Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers, the HBC attracted many memorable characters. Explorer Henry Kelsey was the first European to see the buffalo herds. James Knight met a mysterious fate on a frozen northern island. Brave Isabel Gunn worked in the fur trade disguised as a man. Anyone who enjoys historical adventure will relish these exciting stories of Canada’s oldest company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926613147
Publisher:	Heritage House
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	Amazing Stories
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Elle Andra-Warner is a bestselling author, journalist and photographer. Her award-winning articles appear regularly in major publications, and her newspaper columns have been in print since 1994. She has given journalism workshops throughout Canada, is an online guest-journalism lecturer for the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the co-editor of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society’s annual journal. Estonian by heritage, Elle was born in a post–Second World War United Nations displaced persons camp for Estonians in Eckernforde, West Germany.

Table of Contents

	Map	11
	Prologue	13
Chapter 1	From the Beaver to the HBC	15
Chapter 2	The Launch of a Trading Empire	26
Chapter 3	The Early Days of the HBC	36
Chapter 4	Standoff	48
Chapter 5	The Commando Raids	59
Chapter 6	Remarkable Adventures of the HBC	70
Chapter 7	The Rivalry Continues	104
Chapter 8	An Historic Merger	121
	Epilogue	128
	Bibliography	130