History
As a way of illustrating the importance of company fur traders to the 100-year-old HBC collection, curator Amelia Fay pulls out three items donated by Julian Camsell, HBC Chief Factor for the MacKenzie District in Canada’s Arctic
In this final episode of Explore’s journey into the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company as it turns 350 years old, we take one last trip into the HBC vaults at the Manitoba Museum with curator Amelia Fay.
As a way of illustrating the importance of company fur traders to the 100 year old HBC collection, Amelia pulls out three items donated by Julian Camsell, HBC Chief Factor for the MacKenzie District in Canada’s Arctic and father of Charles Camsell, founding president of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Through these items, Amelia discusses how HBC fur traders played an important role in collecting not just cultural artifacts, but scientific samples as well — flora and fauna that wound up in museums and collections as far away as London and Washington, D.C.
We also hear an archival recording of Philip Scott Camsell, son of Julian, describing his father and his life in the Arctic in the latter half of the 19th century.
People & Culture
For community members in Waskaganish, Que., the place where Cree traders established first contact with company employees, it’s just a chapter in a longer history
History
A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe
History
Indigenous rights lawyer and author Jean Teillet reveals how the struggle to dominate the fur trade led to the rise of a distinct people in Canada: the Métis
History
The Explore podcast delves into the 350-year history of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In this, the first of a four-part series, we visit the James Bay Cree Nation of Waskaganish, site of the first-ever HBC trading post.