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CHRONICLES OF CANADA SERIES

THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED

Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON

CHRONICLES OF CANADA SERIES

Part I   THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS

Part II   THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE

Part III   THE ENGLISH INVASION

Part IV   THE AMERICAN INVASIONS

Part V   THE RED MAN IN CANADA

Part VI   PATHFINDERS AND PIONEERS

Part VII   POLITICAL FREEDOM AND NATIONALITY

Part VIII   NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

THE 'ADVENTURERS OF ENGLAND' ON HUDSON BAY

A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North

AGNES C. LAUT

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1914

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I

THE FUR HUNTERS

CHAPTER II

THE TRAGEDY OF HENRY HUDSON

CHAPTER III

OTHER EXPLORERS ON THE BAY

CHAPTER IV

THE 'ADVENTURERS OF ENGLAND'

CHAPTER V

FRENCH AND ENGLISH ON THE BAY

CHAPTER VI

THE GREAT OVERLAND RAID

CHAPTER VII

YEARS OF DISASTER

CHAPTER VIII

EXPANSION AND EXPLORATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

INDEX

Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press

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