The road to Cathay and the Hudson's Bay Company

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Rich, E. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1971
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Baffin Island; Greenland; Hudson; Frobisher Bay; Hudson Strait; Cumberland Sound; Baffin; Davis Strait; North West Passage; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740006143x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740006143X

There had been no English expedition to search for the North-west Passage for 40 years before the Hudson's Bay Company received its royal charter on 2 May 1670. Early enthusiasm, generated largely by Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the “Colleagues of the Fellowship for the discovery of the North-West...