Table of Contents:
  • The European connection
  • Alexander Light
  • James Isham
  • Humphrey Marten
  • Andrew Graham
  • Thomas Hutchins
  • Moses Norton
  • Samuel Hearne
  • Peter Fidler
  • Natural history
  • Climatology
  • In striking contrast: Charleston
  • Appendices
  • Sailing ships to York factory, 1716-1827
  • Provenance of Hudson's Bay Company journals / Deidre A. Simmons
  • The ten HBC manuscripts of Graham and Hutchins / Stuart and Mary Houston
  • Ten-year cycles / Stuart Houston
  • How the HBC swan quill and swan skin trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan / Stuart Houston, Mary Houston, and Henry M. Reeves
  • How the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada / Stuart Houston
  • Cree names for natural history species / Stuart Houston, Mary Houston, and Arok Wolvengrey.