John McLean (ca. 1798-1890)
[John McLean's book, Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, provides insight into the type of individual on whose industry the wealth of the Company was founded.] . After initial brief employment by the North West Company, he entered the service of the HB...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65349 2023-05-15T14:19:16+02:00 John McLean (ca. 1798-1890) O'Flaherty, Patrick 1983-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65349 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65349/49263 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65349 ARCTIC; Vol. 36 No. 4 (1983): December: 311–395; 378-379 1923-1245 0004-0843 Biographies Expeditions Explorers Fur trade History Hudson's Bay Company McLean John ca. 1798-1890 Canada Fort Simpson N.W.T Fort Smith Kuujjuaq Québec Labrador Ungava Baie d' info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1983 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:25Z [John McLean's book, Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, provides insight into the type of individual on whose industry the wealth of the Company was founded.] . After initial brief employment by the North West Company, he entered the service of the HBC following the union of the two companies in 1821, and until 1833 worked as a fur trader in the Ottawa Valley. . In 1833 he was transferred to the Company's western department, and his book describes his trek overland to the North Pacific slope of the Rockies . In 1837 he began the greatest adventure of his life, when he was appointed by Simpson to take charge of what was termed the "Ungava venture", i.e., the quixotic attempt to open up a fur trade in the interior of the Labrador peninsula. [His explorations of this area are impressive. McLean was the first European to describe Grand (now Churchill) Falls, which he eventually managed to navigate around after much hardship.] . his brilliant expeditions were landmarks in the story of northern exploration. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Fort Simpson Fort Smith Kuujjuaq University of Calgary Journal Hosting Canada Fort Simpson ENVELOPE(-121.320,-121.320,61.808,61.808) Fort Smith ENVELOPE(-111.889,-111.889,60.004,60.004) Kuujjuaq ENVELOPE(-68.398,-68.398,58.100,58.100) Pacific ARCTIC 36 4 |
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[John McLean's book, Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, provides insight into the type of individual on whose industry the wealth of the Company was founded.] . After initial brief employment by the North West Company, he entered the service of the HBC following the union of the two companies in 1821, and until 1833 worked as a fur trader in the Ottawa Valley. . In 1833 he was transferred to the Company's western department, and his book describes his trek overland to the North Pacific slope of the Rockies . In 1837 he began the greatest adventure of his life, when he was appointed by Simpson to take charge of what was termed the "Ungava venture", i.e., the quixotic attempt to open up a fur trade in the interior of the Labrador peninsula. [His explorations of this area are impressive. McLean was the first European to describe Grand (now Churchill) Falls, which he eventually managed to navigate around after much hardship.] . his brilliant expeditions were landmarks in the story of northern exploration. . |
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