'Corruption' at Moose ...
On the cold, desolate, wind-swept shore of Hudson Bay, winters were long and there was nothing but brandy and talk to relieve the boredom of the endless ice and the interminable meals of salt geese and dried pease. Tempers grew shorter as the winter lengthened and the new recruits succumbed to the b...
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ftdatacite:10.11575/prism/29819 2023-08-27T04:09:53+02:00 'Corruption' at Moose ... Pannekoek, Frits, 1949- 1979 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/29819 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/44177 en eng Canada's National History Society Hudson Bay Bayside James Duffield Canada 1740s Rupert's Land James Knight Richard Staunton article-journal Other ScholarlyArticle journal article 1979 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.11575/prism/29819 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z On the cold, desolate, wind-swept shore of Hudson Bay, winters were long and there was nothing but brandy and talk to relieve the boredom of the endless ice and the interminable meals of salt geese and dried pease. Tempers grew shorter as the winter lengthened and the new recruits succumbed to the bottle and inevitable melancholia. Rebellions brewed and violence was too often the order of the day. Only a few found life even tolerable. These few lived a careful compromise between the heavily regulated life of the Company fort and the freedom offered by the camps of the 'Home Guard' Indians? those Indians who lived near the fort year-round and provided local food supplies to the Company. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Hudson Bay DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Bayside ENVELOPE(-56.882,-56.882,49.567,49.567) Canada Hudson Hudson Bay |
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On the cold, desolate, wind-swept shore of Hudson Bay, winters were long and there was nothing but brandy and talk to relieve the boredom of the endless ice and the interminable meals of salt geese and dried pease. Tempers grew shorter as the winter lengthened and the new recruits succumbed to the bottle and inevitable melancholia. Rebellions brewed and violence was too often the order of the day. Only a few found life even tolerable. These few lived a careful compromise between the heavily regulated life of the Company fort and the freedom offered by the camps of the 'Home Guard' Indians? those Indians who lived near the fort year-round and provided local food supplies to the Company. ... |
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