“How frigid zones reward the advent’rers toils”: natural history writing and the British imagination in the making of Hudson Bay, 1741-1752

• Main Author: Melchin, Nicholas
• Other Authors: Vibert, Elizabeth, McKenzie, Andrea Katherine
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Exploration; Dobbs; North; Eighteenth century; Arctic; Landscape; Canada; Inuit; Cree; Indian; Indigenous; Subarctic; Tree; Forest; Colonial; Northwest Passage; Ellis; Swaine; Drage; Robson; Middleton; Oldmixon; Cold; Hudson Strait; Hudson's Bay Company; Representation; Sub-arctic; English; Britain; England; Empire; Climate; Improvement; Colonization; Discourse; Identity; 1740; 1750; UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada > History; Hudson; Hudson Bay; inuit; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2023

During the 1740’s, Hudson Bay went from an obscure backwater of the British Empire to a locus of colonial ambition. Arthur Dobbs revitalized Northwest Passage exploration, generating new information about the region’s environment and indigenous peoples. This study explores evolving English and Briti...