R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894)
More than a few northern men of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - particularly those raised in Scotland and England - have attested in their memoirs to the seductive tug they felt as boys when reading Ballantyne's books about the Canadian North. It is something of a happy iron...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65220 2023-05-15T14:19:15+02:00 R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) Cockburn, R.H. 1984-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65220 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65220/49134 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65220 ARCTIC; Vol. 37 No. 1 (1984): March: 1–90; 70-71 1923-1245 0004-0843 Ballantyne Robert Michael 1825-1894 Biographies Expeditions Explorers Fur trade History Hudson's Bay Company Literature Manitoba Northern Norway House York Factory info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1984 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:19Z More than a few northern men of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - particularly those raised in Scotland and England - have attested in their memoirs to the seductive tug they felt as boys when reading Ballantyne's books about the Canadian North. It is something of a happy irony, given his own uneasy and brief period of service with the Hudson's Bay Company, that Ballantyne's boys' novels 'The Young Fur Traders' (1855) and 'Ungava' (1857) and, more especially, his personal account of that service, 'Hudson's Bay; or Every-Day Life in the Wilds of North America' (1848), recruited so many able young men for both the HBC and Revillon Freres. As Ballantyne's six years in Rupert's Land and the King's Posts, and his narrative of that experience, are the cynosure of this profile, the balance of his life must be dealt with summarily. . It is for Hudson's Bay that we still remember Ballantyne. Detailed and valuably informative, the account is enlivened by youthful intensity. As well as describing fur trade operations, it contains powerful evocations of terrain, waterways, and weather, and shrewd sketches of an assortment of personalities. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northern Norway University of Calgary Journal Hosting Norway York Factory ENVELOPE(-92.306,-92.306,57.002,57.002) ARCTIC 37 1 |
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More than a few northern men of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - particularly those raised in Scotland and England - have attested in their memoirs to the seductive tug they felt as boys when reading Ballantyne's books about the Canadian North. It is something of a happy irony, given his own uneasy and brief period of service with the Hudson's Bay Company, that Ballantyne's boys' novels 'The Young Fur Traders' (1855) and 'Ungava' (1857) and, more especially, his personal account of that service, 'Hudson's Bay; or Every-Day Life in the Wilds of North America' (1848), recruited so many able young men for both the HBC and Revillon Freres. As Ballantyne's six years in Rupert's Land and the King's Posts, and his narrative of that experience, are the cynosure of this profile, the balance of his life must be dealt with summarily. . It is for Hudson's Bay that we still remember Ballantyne. Detailed and valuably informative, the account is enlivened by youthful intensity. As well as describing fur trade operations, it contains powerful evocations of terrain, waterways, and weather, and shrewd sketches of an assortment of personalities. . |
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