The Eighteenth Century Trade between the Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Hudson Strait Inuit

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1994
• Subjects: Animal mortality; Bowhead whales; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Inuit; Proteins; Trade and barter; Whaling; Hudson Strait region; Nunavut; Hudson Strait; Nunavut/Québec; Arctic; Baffin Island; Baie d'Hudson; Baie-d'Hudson; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Middle Savage Islands; Savage Islands; Baffin; Balaena mysticetus; bowhead whale; Détroit d'Hudson; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64349

From an early stage in the history of the Hudson's Bay Company, the captains of the company's ships annually received specific instructions to make contact and trade with the Inuit of southern Baffin Island in the vicinity of the Upper and Middle Savage Islands in Hudson Strait during thei...