Chronological list of expeditions and historical events in northern Canada. IV. 1763–89

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Cooke, Alan, Holland, Clive
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1971
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Hudson Bay; Canada; Pacific; Hudson; Eldorado; North West Passage; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400061805; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400061805

If the Treaty of Paris in 1763 secured the Hudson's Bay Company in its monopoly of Rupert's Land, it also, by the Cession of Canada, opened to British enterprise the river-and-lake routes, discovered by the French, from Montreal to the fur-rich country west of Hudson Bay. This instalment o...