Henry Toke Munn (1864-1952)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: White, Gavin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1984
• Subjects: Biographies; Businesses; Geological exploration; Gold; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Klondike Gold Rush; 1898; Munn; Henry Toke; 1864-1952; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Ontario; Northern; Southampton Island; Arctic; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Wood Buffalo; Yukon; Baffin; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65222

[Munn] came to Canada at the age of 22 and was nearly killed in a shoot-up in the streets of Montreal on the very day of his landing. He became a farmer and then a horse-breeder in Manitoba, and by 1894 he was hunting muskoxen and wood buffalo in the far northwest. He subsequently prospected around...