Chronological list of expeditions and historical events in northern Canada. VI. 1821–45

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Cooke, Alan, Holland, Clive
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1972
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Yukon; Mackenzie River; Canada; Liard; Peel River; Liard River; Mackenzie river; Polar Record; Yukon river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400062410; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400062410

In this instalment of our list, we see that the Hudson's Bay Company, under the shrewd direction of its overseas governor, George Simpson, quickly recovered from its exhausting struggle with the North West Company and, strengthened by amalgamation with its rival in 1821, began vigorously to push into unknown country both west and east. In the east, the Ungava venture was an attempt, mainly unsuccessful, to develop a fur trade in the interior of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula. And in the west, the exertions of a few hardy men opened the fur-rich country of the Liard River and its tributaries, the Peel River and the region of the Mackenzie River delta, and crossed the Rocky Mountains to the upper drainage of the Yukon River.