The Champlain Society

The Champlain Publications

Documents Relating to the Early History of Hudson Bay

Author(s):	J. B. (Joseph Burr) Tyrrell, Editor
Language:	English
Series:	General Series , No. 18
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Publication Date:	1931
Description:	This volume is devoted to the conflict between France and England over rights to the possession and the trade of Hudson Bay, which ended in 1713 when the Treaty of Utrecht ceded the territory to England. French materials appear in translation. Contents include the journal of the Jesuit priest Antoine Silvy detailing a visit to Port Nelson in 1684-85; a letter by Jesuit missionary Pierre-Gabriel Marest recounting the French siege of York Fort in 1694 and the winter then spent at the Hayes River; a selection of chapters from Claude-Charles Bacqueville de la Potherie's Histoire de l'Amerique Septentrionalle (c. 1716); and The History of Hudson's-Bay, by John Oldmixon, 1708.
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