Eighteenth-century naturalists of Hudson Bay
By: Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary Houston.
Contributors: Ball, T. F. (Timothy F.); Houston, Mary.
Series: McGill-Queen's native and northern series -- 34
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Hudson's Bay Company -- Biography; Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Naturalists -- Hudson Bay Region -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: 18th century naturalists of Hudon Bay
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The European connection --; title: Alexander Light --; title: James Isham --; title: Humphrey Marten --; title: Andrew Graham --; title: Thomas Hutchins --; title: Moses Norton --; title: Samuel Hearne --; title: Peter Fidler --; title: Natural history --; title: Climatology --; title: In striking contrast: Charleston -- -- Appendices; title: Sailing ships to York factory, 1716-1827 --; title: Provenance of Hudson's Bay Company journals -- Deidre A. Simmons; title: The ten HBC manuscripts of Graham and Hutchins -- Stuart and Mary Houston; title: Ten-year cycles -- Stuart Houston; title: How the HBC swan quill and swan skin trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan -- Stuart Houston, Mary Houston, and Henry M. Reeves; title: How the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada -- Stuart Houston; title: Cree names for natural history species-- Stuart Houston, Mary Houston, and Arok Wolvengrey.