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Hudson Bay trading post

Ken (View posts)
Posted: 26 Nov 2004 7:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2004 12:18AM GMT
I saw something on the web or on a news program once about this trading post that is being forced to move forward with modern civilization and upgrade there store to be something more of a General store or to compete with Wal-Mart or something of that matter.
Anyway they said that they were the only trading post out there for over 100 years or something like that. They claimed to have had all kinds of famous cowboys and stuff go through there.
My suggestion is that you try and locate the trading post and see if they have a registry and perhaps you can draw on that.
Just a suggestion though.

Hmmm? Who would have thought that watching a TV show about the north would someday help somebody find long lost relatives? Well hope it helps, good luck.

Funny thing is that I requested to be removed from this notification and for some reason this one still got through.
WOW!

Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Posted: 27 Nov 2004 9:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Dec 2006 11:13PM GMT
I've been in a few, the one in Churchill Manitoba looks like an old post when you go in, smells strongly of tanned skins and has everything you would expect it too, including the furs and skins for the ladies to make their mocasins.
The one in Yellowknife much the same but more touristy, their furs are both raw and finished the finished ones made into $10,000 bedspreads
<sigh> PETA would be outraged but methinks going to sleep on a cold winter night in the North would be a slice of heaven under one of those!

HBC puts out a catalogue that goes out to everyone up there.

It sells clothing for everyday, food, wedding gowns, skidoos, tents...you know, the important stuff! I am glad I didn't have to buy my wedding gown from HBC, they are lovely, but can you imagine the sizing nightmare?

Went and looked, it is now called Northwest Company

http://www.selections.ca/s_group.jsp
(Do NOT consider this an ad, if you live below North of 60 you can not even order from them, they will not ship to you....not to mention why would you want to???)

Where else can you buy a wood stove, rifle, freezer, wedding gown and long underwear all from the same catalogue!?!?!




Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Ken (View posts)
Posted: 28 Nov 2004 8:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2004 12:19AM GMT
Very entertaining! Thank You.

Duh! call me stupid but where is 60 ? Always liked that show.

Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Posted: 28 Nov 2004 11:05AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Mar 2006 2:37PM GMT
We say North of 60 , but actually they ship *south of 60* because I am pretty sure <---does that scream that I slept through geography?--- Thompson Mb is South of it and they ship there.
They ship to *Northern Communities*

Anyway, I know the 60th Parallel park is right on the NWT and Alberta border, and I *believe* the *line* where the yukon, NWT (and now Nunavut) intersect with lower provinces is the 60th parallel.

Jamie
Thankfully living far *South of 60* now, 12 years in Yellowknife was 11 too long.

I do wonder why very few inuit do genealogy, when I see the boards with only scant postings, usually from folks who had realtives go up there in the 1900's, it always makes me curious.


Re: Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Ken (View posts)
Posted: 28 Nov 2004 11:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Dec 2006 11:14PM GMT
Are You Inuit? I am white and I have been doing my genealogy and recently discovvered that one of my branches was mainly German my early relatives were among the early seetlers and founders of what we now call and take for granted as Ontario.

I embrace the Inuit for the true people that they are. I respect where they have come from and it's unfortunate that so many have lost touch with there true nature and do not respect there history. However this IS a modern world and we have to learn to grow with the times. It's my beleafe that every culture and race will contribute to the greater good of our HUMAN race as time go's by. I like to think that we're just in a 'rutt' or a 'slump' and when we finnaly wake up I honestly hope that we will all contribute to what is yet to come. OK enough of the futurist's beleafes.
Well I guess that I am definately south of 60 then and eventhough I loved geography in school I have forgotten everything , it's just a blur now. lol. Like I said Duh! meaning me for not knowing.
Well nice talking to you .

Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 12:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 23 Dec 2006 11:15PM GMT
Nah, I am so white I am almost clear.
The inuit people are amazing in so many ways. I don't think they realize they are losing parts of their history because so little is written down and archived...yet so much is indeed passed down via oral history. Yet as we know, that tends to be forgotton and changed through the years.

They are very strong, resourceful, and resilient people. I suppose disregarding the fact I hated the cold, the best part of living up there was meeting the inuit people. As much as we all are alike, we are very, very different in so many ways.

Cheers

J

Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 7:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
Little known fact, but HBC is now The Bay, and not Northwest company. Northwest Company and HBC were rivals. cold winter nights in the North are not a slice of heaven under ANYTHING. It's freaking cold!

Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 1:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
HBC & Northwest Company amalgamated back in 1821 http://www.northwest.ca/history

Re: Hudson Bay trading post

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 2:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hudson bay is owned by the BAY and the BAY is a commercial version of the Hudson bay company and always has been. I would speculate at this point that perhaps the other(Northwest Company) is Zellers Corp. and they are both one and the same now. I've always presumed that the better one being the Bay took over Zellers.. whichever does not really matter except for trivia buffs. And as far as Amalgamation goes? just a word! one took over the other for some reason. it's the way things work these days..
Suffice it to say they are both one and the same now!
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