item: #1 of 16 id: 15911 author: Franchère, Gabriel title: Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific date: None words: 66607 flesch: 65 summary: It is a classic term that calls to our mind rough Captain _Thorn's_ sailor-like contempt for his literary passengers so comically described by Mr. _ The rock which here arrests the course of the _Ottawa_, extends from shore to shore, and so completely cuts off the waters, that at the time we passed none was seen falling over, but sinking by subterranean channels, or fissures in the rock, it boiled up below, from seven or eight different openings, not unlike water in a huge caldron, whence the first explorers of the country gave it the name of _Chaudière_ or Caldron falls. keywords: astoria; bay; board; boat; canoes; captain; chapter; columbia; company; country; course; day; days; establishment; evening; feet; fish; fort; gentlemen; good; house; hunt; indians; islands; lake; left; little; man; men; messrs; miles; morning; mountains; natives; new; night; northwest; number; party; people; place; point; provisions; return; river; saw; sea; ship; small; stuart; time; use; vessel; village; water; wind; york cache: 15911.txt plain text: 15911.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 16596 author: Wallace, Dillon title: Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale date: None words: 67627 flesch: 83 summary: Thus it happened that the _Maid of the North_, spick and span, with a new coat of paint on the outside, and a good stock of provisions and articles of trade in her hold, sailed out of Halifax Harbour and turned her prow to the northward on the first day of September, and was plowing her way to the Labrador at the very time that Bob Gray with his mother and Emily were returning so disconsolate to Wolf Bight after hearing the verdict of the mail boat doctor, and Bob was making the plans that carried him into the interior. Mr. Forbes was at the wharf when Bob landed, and when he saw who it was exclaimed in astonishment: Why it's Bob Gray! keywords: bay; bear; bessie; bill; boat; bob; day; days; dick; dogs; douglas; emily; eskimos; fine; fire; fur; good; gray; half; home; ice; indians; john; lad; left; maid; man; men; micmac; morning; mother; new; night; river; snow; thinkin; tilt; time; tis; trail; way; white; wind cache: 16596.txt plain text: 16596.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 18182 author: Laut, Agnes C. title: Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade date: None words: 72800 flesch: 88 summary: Then I'll show you what I'll give the Most Christian of Kings! La Chesnaye rushed up with rash threat; but M. de Radisson pushed the merchant aside and stood very still, looking at Ben. Young man, he began, as quietly as if he were wishing Ben the season's compliments, I brought you to this fort for the purpose of keeping you in this fort, and it is for me to say when you may leave this fort! Ben rumbled out a string of oaths, and M. Radisson motioned the soldiers to encircle him. M. de Radisson Comes to his Own IX. keywords: air; battle; bay; ben; blood; borgne; captain; chesnaye; company; court; dark; day; door; english; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; fire; fort; french; furs; gillam; godefroy; good; governor; half; hand; head; hortense; indian; jack; jean; king; kirke; life; look; m. picot; m. radisson; man; men; new; night; north; pierre radisson; ramsay; rebecca; river; sea; set; ship; shot; sir; sword; thought; time; tis; twas; way; white; wind; words; world; young cache: 18182.txt plain text: 18182.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 20418 author: Laut, Agnes C. title: Lords of the North date: None words: 105216 flesch: 86 summary: Get you gone to the squaws at the tents, old men, The cart-lines safely encircle the camp! Now, old men and squaws, come you out with the carts! keywords: air; arms; bay; blood; boy; camp; chapter; child; come; coming; company; dark; day; diable; door; douglas; eric; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; fire; forest; fort; frances; good; governor; grant; ground; half; hamilton; hand; head; heart; holland; horse; hudson; indian; know; lad; laplante; left; life; look; lord; louis; man; men; miriam; night; nor'-westers; north; past; place; priest; red; river; room; rufus; saw; set; sioux; sir; snow; squaw; sutherland; tent; thing; thought; till; time; uncle; voice; way; white; wild; window; woman; words; y'r cache: 20418.txt plain text: 20418.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 20643 author: Turner, Frederick Jackson title: The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin date: None words: 24745 flesch: 71 summary: Upon Wisconsin trade from 1814 to 1822 its influence was slight. [Footnote 240: The centers of Wisconsin trade were Green Bay, Prairie du Chien, and La Pointe (on Madelaine island, Chequamegon bay). keywords: american; bay; british; colls; company; country; english; footnote; french; fur; fur trade; furs; goods; green; hist; indian; lake; margry; mississippi; new; northwest; post; region; river; state; time; trade; traders; trading; tribes; way; wisconsin cache: 20643.txt plain text: 20643.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 21715 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Away in the Wilderness date: None words: 27516 flesch: 82 summary: The North American Indian has no religion worthy of the name; but he has a conscience, like other men, which tells him that it is wrong to murder and to steal. If I could not turn round and walk straight back to the fort this night, I would not be worthy of your daughter, old man. keywords: arrowhead; canoe; day; face; fire; fort; good; heywood; hunter; indian; jasper; man; marie; men; moment; night; pemberton; river; round; snow; time cache: 21715.txt plain text: 21715.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 21732 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Fort Desolation: Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land date: None words: 17779 flesch: 82 summary: Poor Jack was honest of heart and generous of spirit, but many a long hard year did he spend in the rugged parts of the earth ere he recovered, (if he ever did recover), from the evil effects of this first false step. In short, being an unpretending man and a plain man, with a good nose and large chin and sandy hair, he was not usually taken much notice of by strangers during his journeyings in the world; but when vigorous action in cases of emergency was required Jack Robinson was the man to make himself conspicuous. keywords: bear; boat; door; fishery; fort; good; jack; jack robinson; ladoc; life; look; man; men; o'donel; pipe; robinson; rollo; teddy; time; way cache: 21732.txt plain text: 21732.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 23129 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North date: None words: 95020 flesch: 78 summary: Before they had quite reached the gate, there was a general rush of trappers, traders, voyageurs, _coureurs-des-bois_, and other _employes_, to reach them; and the next moment they were lost in the midst of the people who crowded out of the Fort to welcome them. From this point it is possible to travel _by water_ to Hudson's Bay on the north-east, to the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, to the Pacific on the west, and to the Polar Sea on the north and north-west. keywords: air; america; animal; basil; bird; camp; canoe; colour; course; creature; day; deer; direction; feet; fire; fish; francois; game; ground; head; indians; journey; kind; lake; length; little; lucien; marengo; moment; moose; norman; north; place; red; river; rock; saw; set; shot; snow; species; surface; swan; time; tree; voyageurs; water; way; white; winter; wolves cache: 23129.txt plain text: 23129.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 30377 author: Laut, Agnes C. title: The Adventurers of England on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North date: None words: 28117 flesch: 74 summary: James, Captain, 18; searches for North-West Passage, 26; meets Captain Fox and winters on Charlton Island, 27. James, Duke of York (James II), 36, 42. Jesuits, their expedition overland to Hudson Bay, 28. Juet, mate of 'Discovery,' 10; mutinies, 12, 17; death, 20. Kelsey, Henry, 68; sent to Nelson, 94; defends fort, 95, 101; his journey of exploration, 104-6; searches for Knight, 109. Kirke, Sir John, 35, 36; his claim against France, 54. Knight, James, 81; governor of Albany, 94; commissioned to find North-West Passage, 108; his fate, 109. La Barre, governor of New France, 63-4. La Chesnaye, fur trader, in attack on Hudson Bay posts, 81, 84-7. La Forest, surrenders at Nelson, 96. Grand Rapids, 3, 4; portage, 6. Greene, Henry, with Hudson, 10, 15; mutiny, 17; death, 20. Grimmington, Mike, with Ben Gillam, 59; with the Hudson's Bay Company, 68, 73; taken prisoner, 78; re-captures Albany, 93; sent to Hudson Bay, 98, 100; flees to Nelson, 101; sails for England with refugees, 102. Groseilliers, Medard Chouart des, French pathfinder, 27; veteran of Jesuit missions, 28; goes to Hudson Bay with Radisson, 29, 30; goes to France for redress for seizure of furs, 31; returns to Three Rivers, 32; goes to Anticosti, Port Royal, and Boston, 32; presented to Charles II, 34; receives gold chain and medal, 36; explores Hudson Bay country, 39; with 1670 expedition, 48; back in England demanding better terms, 53; goes to New France, 54; on fur-trading expedition, 56; returns to Quebec and to France, 64, 65; retires to home near Three Rivers, 66. Hannah Bay, 12, d'Iberville crosses, 83. Hayes river, named by Radisson, 49, 57. keywords: adventurers; albany; bay; bay company; captain; company; crew; d'iberville; england; english; fort; france; french; fur; furs; gillam; governor; great; groseilliers; hudson; hudson bay; indians; james; men; nelson; new; north; passage; quebec; radisson; river; rupert; sea; ship; sir; time; trade; way; west; years cache: 30377.txt plain text: 30377.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 32236 author: Laut, Agnes C. title: The Story of the Trapper date: None words: 83081 flesch: 78 summary: Possibly Indians and fur trappers who had been notified to come down to Pierre's Hole by the Rocky Mountain men; possibly, too, paid spies in the employment of the American Fur Company. White men and Indians vied with each other in mutual debasement. keywords: american; animal; bay; bay company; bear; beaver; black; blackfeet; buffalo; canoe; company; day; days; death; dog; end; ermine; eyes; feet; fire; fort; fox; french; fur; fur company; furs; game; gray; ground; half; head; hole; hudson; hunter; hunting; indian; indian trapper; koot; left; life; line; little; man; marten; men; mink; missouri; moose; mountain; musk; new; night; north; northern; post; prairie; rabbit; rat; red; river; run; set; skin; snow; stream; time; traders; trail; trapper; traps; water; way; west; westers; white; winter; wolf; wolverine; world; years; young cache: 32236.txt plain text: 32236.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 35658 author: Mackenzie, Alexander title: Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I date: None words: 80016 flesch: 72 summary: There is a channel or small river in the centre of this swamp, which is kept with difficulty, and runs South and North one mile and a half. From thence, on the North side, is a safe road, when the waters are high, through small rivers and lakes, to the Lake du Bonnet, called the Pinnawas, from the man who discovered it: to the White River, so called from its being, for a considerable length, a succession of falls and cataracts, is twelve miles. keywords: afternoon; appearance; articles; banks; bay; beaver; canoe; chief; company; country; course; current; day; deer; distance; east; english; fall; feet; fire; fish; half; hunters; ice; indians; island; lake; land; latitude; left; length; long; men; miles; morning; mountains; natives; nets; night; north; paces; past; people; place; point; portage; quantity; rapid; return; river; shore; skins; south; state; time; trade; voyage; water; way; weather; west; white; wind; winter; women; wood; year; | | cache: 35658.txt plain text: 35658.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 35659 author: Mackenzie, Alexander title: Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II date: None words: 84141 flesch: 69 summary: These people they described as possessing iron, arms, and utensils, which they procured from their neighbours to the Westward, and were obtained by a commercial progress from people like ourselves, who brought them in great canoes. From thence they stated the distance to be only one day's voyage with the current to the lake whose water is nauseous, and where they had heard that great canoes came two winters ago, and that the people belonging to them, brought great quantities of goods and built houses. keywords: canoe; country; course; current; day; distance; east; feet; fish; great; guide; half; indians; lake; land; left; length; man; men; mile; morning; mountains; natives; night; north; people; place; quarter; return; river; sea; small; south; state; time; water; weather; west; wood cache: 35659.txt plain text: 35659.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 35720 author: Colden, Cadwallader title: Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada date: None words: 82142 flesch: 69 summary: No; and as this Matter can be easily cleared up, we are anxious it should be done; for we are positive no such thing was ever mentioned to us at _Onandago_, nor any where else. In Consideration thereof, of our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and meer Motion) have given and granted, and by this our present Charter, for us, our Heirs and Successors, do give and grant unto the said _William Penn_, his Heirs and Assigns, all that Tract or Part of Land in _America_, with the Islands therein contained, as the same is bounded on the East by _Delawar_ River, from twelve Miles Distance Northwards of _Newcastle_ keywords: act; aforesaid; albany; assembly; brethren; brother; canada; commissioners; council; country; e n; e t; english; excellency; french; goods; government; governor; great; heirs; indians; king; lands; maryland; men; n t; nations; new; people; persons; place; present; province; river; s e; shall; t h; time; trade; virginia; war; william; years; york cache: 35720.txt plain text: 35720.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 42279 author: Willson, Beckles title: The Great Company Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants-Adventurers Trading into Hudson's Bay date: None words: 179482 flesch: 62 summary: Our ship yonder is the _Prince Rupert_, belonging to the honourable Hudson's Bay Company and commanded by Captain Zachary Gillam. Dissensions exhibited themselves; the minority, at least, felt that in their London agents--Ellice and the McGillivrays--coming to terms with the Hudson's Bay Company, lay their only hope of salvation. keywords: adventurers; albany; america; bay company; beaver; british; canada; captain; case; charter; chief; coast; colony; committee; country; course; court; day; days; england; english; expedition; factory; following; fort; fort nelson; fort william; france; french; fur company; furs; general; good; government; governor; grant; groseilliers; half; house; hudson; iberville; illustration; india company; indians; island; john; journey; king; lake; lands; letter; little; london; long; lord; majesty; man; matter; means; men; miles; nelson; new; north; northern; number; old; order; pacific; partners; party; passage; place; possession; post; present; prince; quebec; radisson; red; return; right; river; rupert; said; sea; selkirk; servants; service; set; settlement; shall; ships; sidenote; sir; south; state; successors; territory; time; trade; traders; trading; treaty; tribes; voyage; war; way; west company; william; winter; years; york; young; | | cache: 42279.txt plain text: 42279.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 44312 author: Bryce, George title: The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company Including that of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies date: None words: 183245 flesch: 68 summary: It is true that for about one hundred years the Hudson's Bay Company men did not leave the shores of Hudson Bay, but what was the need so long as the Indians came to the coast with their furs and afforded them profitable trade! In 1853, he announced that the drawback in former expeditions had been the custom of carrying a great stock of provisions and useless impedimenta, and so under Hudson's Bay Company auspices he undertook to go with gun and fishing tackle up the west coast of Hudson Bay. keywords: account; alexander; assiniboine; athabasca; bay company; british; canada; canadian; canoe; captain; century; chapter; charge; chief; coast; colony; columbia; columbia river; companies; company fort; company governor; company house; company officer; country; day; days; district; early; england; english; expedition; factor; following; fort; fort douglas; fort garry; fort simpson; fort vancouver; fort william; france; french; fur; fur trade; furs; george; good; government; governor; grand; great; half; house; hudson bay; indians; interest; interior; island; james; john; journey; king; lake; land; left; life; line; little; london; long; lord; macdonell; mackenzie river; man; mckenzie; men; miles; montreal; mountains; mouth; near; new; nor'-westers; north; number; officers; pacific; party; passage; peace river; people; place; point; portage; post; prince; radisson; red river; region; return; river; river district; river settlement; rocky; route; rupert; saskatchewan; sea; selkirk; service; settlers; ship; simpson; sir; states; superior; territory; thompson; time; trade; traders; trading; trading company; united; voyage; way; west company; western; winnipeg; winter; work; writer; years; york; young cache: 44312.txt plain text: 44312.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 6580 author: Hudson's Bay Company title: Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company date: None words: 10177 flesch: -31 summary: AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, That the said Governor, or Deputy Governor, and the rest of the said Company, and their Successors for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, whereof the Governor or Deputy Governor, from time to time, to be one, shall and may from time to time, and at all Times hereafter, have Power and Authority yearly, and every Year, between the first and last day of November, to assemble and meet together in some convenient Place, from time to time to be appointed by the said Governor of the said Company, or in his Absence by his Deputy; and that they being so assembled, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor or his Deputy, and the Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, which then shall happen to be present, whereof the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time being to be one, to elect and nominate Seven of the said Company, which shall be a Committee of the said Company, for one whole Year from then next ensuing, which Persons being so elected and nominated to be a Committee of the said Company as aforesaid, before they be admitted to the Execution of their Office, shall take a corporal Oath, before the Governor or his Deputy, and any three or more of the said Committee of the said Company, being their last Predecessors, that they, and every of them, shall well and faithfully perform their said Office of Committees in all Things concerning the same, and that immediately after the said Oath so taken, they shall and may execute and use their said Office of Committees of the said Company, for one whole Year from thence next following. AND MOREOVER, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO GRANT unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, that when, and as often as it shall happen, the Governor or Deputy Governor of the said Company for the Time being, at any Time within one Year after that he shall be nominated, elected, and sworn to the Office of the Governor of the said Company, as is aforesaid, to die or to be removed from the said Office, which Governor or Deputy Governor not demeaning himself well in his said Office, WE WILL to be removeable at the Pleasure of the rest of the said Company, or the greater Part of them which shall be present at their publick Assemblies, commonly called, Their General Courts holden for the said Company, that then, and so often it shall and may be lawful to and for the Residue of the said Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, within a convenient Time, after the Death or Removing of any such Governor, or Deputy Governor to assemble themselves in such convenient Place as they shall think fit, for the Election of the Governor or Deputy Governor of the said Company; and that the said Company, or the greater Part of them, being then and there present, shall and may, then and there, before their Departure from the said Place, elect and nominate one other of the said Company, to be Governor or Deputy Governor for the said Company, in the Place and Stead of him that so died or was removed; which Person being so elected and nominated to the Office of Governor or Deputy Governor of the said Company, shall have and exercise the said Office, for and during the Residue of the said Year, taking first a corporal Oath, as is aforesaid, for the due Execution thereof; and this to be done from time to time, so often as the Case shall so require. keywords: company; deputy; deputy governor; governor; office; successors; time cache: 6580.txt plain text: 6580.txt