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Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay

By: Agnes C. Laut

The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewan, crossed the Rocky Mountains, went down the Columbia. Fur, not glory, was the quest when the dog bells went ringing over the wintry wastes from Saskatchewan to Athabaska, across the Barren Lands, and north to the Arctic. Beaver, not empire, was the object in view when the horse brigades of one hundred and two hundred and three hundred hunters, led by Ogden, or Ross, or M'Kay or Ermatinger went winding south over the mountains from New Caledonia through the country that now comprises the states of Washington and Oregon and Idaho, across the deserts of Utah and Nevada, to the Spanish forts at San Francisco and Monterey. It is a question whether La Salle could have found his way to the Mississippi, or Radisson to the North Sea, or Mackenzie to the Pacific, if the little beaver had not inspired the search and paid the toll.

Books in 'Chronicles of Canada' series
  1. Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock
  2. Chronicles of Canada Volume 02 - Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock
  3. Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 – Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain by Charles William Colby
  4. Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness by Stephen Leacock
  5. Chronicles of Canada Volume 05 - Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
  6. Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 by Thomas Chapais
  7. Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac by Charles William Colby
  8. Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 by William Charles Henry Wood
  9. Chronicles of Canada Volume 09 - The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Arthur G. Doughty
  10. Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm by William Charles Henry Wood
  11. Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe by William Charles Henry Wood
  12. Chronicles of Canada Volume 12 - The Father of British Canada; A Chronicle of Carleton by William Charles Henry Wood
  13. Chronicles of Canada Volume 13 - The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration by W. Stewart Wallace
  14. Chronicles of Canada Volume 14 - The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812 by William Charles Henry Wood
  15. Chronicles of Canada Volume 15 - The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac War by Thomas Guthrie Marquis
  16. Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 - The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by Louis Aubrey Wood
  17. Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People by Ethel T. Raymond
  18. Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay by Agnes C. Laut
  19. Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains by Lawrence J. Burpee
  20. Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North by Stephen Leacock
  21. Chronicles of Canada Volume 21 - The Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Louis Aubrey Wood
  22. Chronicles of Canada Volume 22 - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters by Agnes C. Laut
  23. Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Agnes C. Laut
  24. Chronicles of Canada Volume 24 -The Family Compact : a chronicle of the rebellion in Upper Canada by W. Stewart Wallace
  25. Chronicles of Canada Volume 25 - The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion by DeCelles by Alfred Duclos DeCelles
  26. Chronicles of Canada Volume 26 - The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Joseph Howe by William Lawson Grant
  27. Chronicles of Canada Volume 27 - The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan
  28. Chronicles of Canada Volume 28 - The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by A. H. U. Colquhoun
  29. Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Joseph Pope
  30. Chronicles of Canada Volume 30 - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Oscar D. Skelton
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  32. Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. Skelton

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Agnes Christina Laut was a Canadian journalist, novelist, historian, and social worker.   Laut was born in Stanley Township, Huron County, Ontario, to John Laut and wife Eliza George. In 1873 the...

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