Christopher Middleton (ca. 1690-1770)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Mapping; Middleton; Christopher; ca. 1690-1770; Navigational aids; Churchill; Manitoba; Hudson Bay; Repulse Bay; Nunavut; Roes Welcome Sound; Wager Bay; Pacific; Hudson; Northwest Passage; Parry; Foxe Basin; Rankin Inlet; Frozen Strait; Cape Dobbs; Arctic; Marble Island; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65301

. He appears to have gone to sea at quite an early age, his service aboard Hudson's Bay Company ships beginning around 1719, possibly even earlier. Early in his career Middleton established his reputation as a meticulous and innovative navigator: in the spring of 1726 he published a paper in th...