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      By Shoalts, Adam
       2015., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: Bio S559a    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. Shoalts was no stranger to the wilderness. He had hacked his way through jungles and swamp, had stared down polar bears and climbed mountains. But one spot on the map called out to him: the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a trackless expanse of muskeg and lonely rivers, caribou and wolf -- an Amazon of the north, parts of which to this day remain unexplored. Cutting through this forbidding landscape is a river no explorer, trapper, or canoeist had left any record of paddling. It was this river that Shoalts was obsessively determined to explore. It took him several attempts, and years of research. But finally, alone, he found the headwaters of the mysterious river. He believed he had discovered what he had set out to find. But the adventure had just begun. Unexpected dangers awaited him downstream. A classic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common. But what does exploration mean in an age when satellite imagery of even the remotest corner of the planet is available to anyone? What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned "Canada<U+2019>s Indiana Jones" and appeared on morning television. Adam Shoalts' expeditions, focusing on the vast Hudson Bay Lowlands, have generated new geographic knowledge and garnered international headlines"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Bourrie, Mark, 1957-
       2019., Adult Connect to this eBook title Series Title: Untold Lives.Summary Note: The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his life. He lived through fantastic adventures: capture and adoption by the Mohawks in 1652, escape to early New York City, trading partner with the indigenous people of the Great Lakes, defecting from the French and witnessing the Great Plague and Great Fire of London, defecting back to the French, co-founding the Hudson's Bay Company, running with pirates... and so on. A fascinating and remarkable life story that is finally being told.
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      -- Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson.
      By Bourrie, Mark, 1957-
       2019., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: IND Bio R129b   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his life. He lived through fantastic adventures: capture and adoption by the Mohawks in 1652, escape to early New York City, trading partner with the indigenous people of the Great Lakes, defecting from the French and witnessing the Great Plague and Great Fire of London, defecting back to the French, co-founding the Hudson's Bay Company, running with pirates... and so on. A fascinating and remarkable life story that is finally being told.
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      By Bown, Stephen R
       2020., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: 971.01 B787c    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The story of the Hudson's Bay Company is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over 30 years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in 'The Company'. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel. Bown lives in Banff, AB.
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      By Flett, Leonard
       2015., Adult, Great Plains Publications Call No: IND Bio F593f    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett's eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.The lives of indigenous people in remote areas of northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the 1960s and 1970s are examined in detail. Flett's successful career with both the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company provides an insight into the dying days of the fur trade and the rise of a new retail business tailored to First Nations."--From publisher.