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Author | : Stuart Houston |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-10-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773569758 |
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The authors show that meteorologic data and weather information recorded at the HBC trading posts over two centuries provide the largest and longest consecutive series available anywhere in North America, one that can help us understand the mechanisms and amount of climate change. They demonstrate that Hudson Bay is the second largest site of new bird species named by Linnaeus and reproduce some of George Edwards' colour paintings of these new species. Six informative appendices reveal how the invaluable HBC archives were transferred from London, England, to Winnipeg, correct previous misinterpretations of the collaboration and relative contributions of Thomas Hutchins and Andrew Graham, use two centuries of HBC fur returns to demonstrate the ten-year hare and lynx cycles, tell how the swan trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan, explain how the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada, and offer an extensive list of eighteenth-century Cree names for birds, mammals, and fish. Informative tables list the eighteenth-century surgeons at York Factory and give names and dates for the annual supply ships.
Author | : James Little Baillie |
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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Author | : Clarence Stuart Houston |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780773522855 |
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Where Peter Newman's best-selling trilogy captured the essence of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as a business empire, Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the company's early employees, drawing largely on materials in the HBC Winnipeg archives. C. Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary Houston make amends for two centuries of neglect of these collector-observers, showing that fur traders in isolated trading posts on Hudson Bay were involved in some of the earliest stirrings of science on the continent and that the fur traders and Native people worked together in a remarkable symbiosis, beneficial to both parties.The authors show that meteorologic data and weather information recorded at the HBC trading posts over two centuries provide the largest and longest consecutive series available anywhere in North America, one that can help us understand the mechanisms and amount of climate change. They demonstrate that Hudson Bay is the second largest site of new bird species named by Linnaeus and reproduce some of George Edwards' colour paintings of these new species. Six informative appendices reveal how the invaluable HBC archives were transferred from London, England, to Winnipeg, correct previous misinterpretations of the collaboration and relative contributions of Thomas Hutchins and Andrew Graham, use two centuries of HBC fur returns to demonstrate the ten-year hare and lynx cycles, tell how the swan trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan, explain how the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada, and offer an extensive list of eighteenth-century Cree names for birds, mammals, and fish. Informative tables list the eighteenth-century surgeons at York Factory and give names and dates for the annual supply ships.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1039 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004323848 |
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Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.
Author | : John Keast Lord |
Publisher | : London : R. Bentley |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : British Columbia |
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Author | : Thomas Henry Manning |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Download Notes on the Country, Birds and Mammals West of Hudson Bay Between Reindeer and Baker Lakes. (Reprinted from the Canadian Field-naturalist, Vol. 62, No. 1. January-February, 1948.) [With Illustrations and a Map.]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Henry Manning |
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Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Download Bird and Mammal Notes from the East Side of Hudson Bay. (Reprinted from the Canadian Field-naturalist, Vol. 60, No. 4, July-August, 1946.) [With Plates and a Map.]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Macoun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Botanists |
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Author | : John Keast Lord |
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Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Download The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Layland |
Publisher | : TouchWood Editions |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1771513071 |
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Winner of the 2020 Basil Stuart Stubbs Prize Winner of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing A celebration of the richly diverse flora and fauna of Vancouver Island as explored through the records of explorers, settlers, and visitors, and with due respect to the wealth of Indigenous traditional knowledge of the island’s ecosystems. In Nature’s Realm gathers initial reports, recorded histories, and personal accounts left by Vancouver Island’s early naturalists who studied the region’s flora and fauna. Many, such as Archibald Menzies, accompanied English and Spanish explorations investigating the coastal geography for colonial expansion. Doctor–naturalists such as John Scouler, David Douglas, and Robert Brown worked with the Hudson’s Bay Company and collected specimens. Irish-born John Macoun, a renowned naturalist, brought his expertise to Vancouver Island, as did botanical artists Sarah Lindley (Lady Crease) and Emily Henrietta Woods. In Nature’s Realm is a companion volume to Layland’s two previous titles: A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island, shortlisted for a BC Book Prize in two categories; and The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island, shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Prize, and for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.