Hudson Bay

An inland sea of east-central Canada. It is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Hudson Strait, which runs between southern Baffin Island and northern Quebec.

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Hudson Bay

(ˈhʌdsən)

(Placename) an inland sea in NE Canada: linked with the Atlantic by Hudson Strait; the S extension forms James Bay; discovered in 1610 by Henry Hudson. Area (excluding James Bay): 647 500 sq km (250 000 sq miles)

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Hud′son Bay′

a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 mi. (1370 km) long; 600 mi. (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).

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Hudson Bay - an inland sea in northern Canada

Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"

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He had never been there, but he had seen it, once, on a Hudson Bay Company chart.

And south, still south, they would go, while the winter raced vainly after them, and the ice formed in the eddies, and the days grew chill and crisp, south to some warm Hudson Bay Company post, where timber grew tall and generous and there was grub without end.

And he conned the grub of the cache and the grub of the Hudson Bay Company post over and over again.

He remembered the Hudson Bay Company chart he had seen long ago, and it was all clear and reasonable to him.

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Men like Al Mayo and Jack McQuestion antedated him; but they had entered the land by crossing the Rockies from the Hudson Bay country to the east.

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He knew it for a Hudson Bay Company gun of the young days in the Northwest, when such a gun was worth its height in beaver skins packed flat, And that was all--no hint as to the man who in an early day had reared the lodge and left the gun among the blankets.

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To begin with, the journals cover one of the most important and dramatic periods in the early history of the fur trade on western Hudson Bay. After assisting the London Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company secure control over its bayside posts under the Treaty of Utrecht, Knight was sent to York Fort (later York Factory) to take possession of what would become, for a century and a half, the most important of the Hudson's Bay Company's trading posts.

Life and Death by the Frozen Sea: The York Fort Journals of Hudson's Bay Company Governor James Knight, 1714-1717

Hudson Bay Company will retain $125 million of preferred equity interest in the building, as per the arrangement between the two companies.

WeWork closes on $850M Lord & Taylor flagship

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that reduced annual sea ice cover in Hudson Bay has led to declines in body condition of polar bears in the local Southern Hudson Bay subpopulation and to a population decline in the neighboring Western Hudson Bay subpopulation.

Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Polar Bears in the Northern Eeyou Marine Region, Quebec, Canada

In the 1850s, Sir James Douglas was running the show for the Hudson Bay Company on Vancouver Island, where he was busy making treaties as was required by the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

New West Lands Reserve: Parts unknown