Authors and Sources


Authors

Exploration from Hudson Bay, 18th Century (Volume I, Plate 58; Concise Plate 7)
RICHARD I. RUGGLES Department of Geography, Queen's University

Sources

Exploration From Hudson Bay, 1610-1820 (Map)
Thornton map, 1709 (Static Map)
Dobbs map, 1744 (Static Map)
Coats map, 1749 (Static Map)
Norton map, 1760 (Static Map)
Graham map, 1772-1774 (Static Map)
Explorers of the Saskatchewan country

  • Bayly, Charles, fl ca 1630-80 DCB 1: 81-4
  • Chouart Des Groseilliers, Médard, 1618-96? DCB 1: 223-8
  • Coats, William, d 1752 DCB 3: 127-8
  • Cocking, Matthew, 1743-99 DCB 4: 156-8
  • Gillam, Zachariah, 1636-82 DCB 1: 336-8
  • Gorst, Thomas, fl ca 1668-87 DCB 1: 343
  • Grimington, Michael, d 1710 DCB 2: 264-7
  • Hearne, Samuel, 1745-92 DCB 4: 339-42
  • Henday, Anthony, fl 1750-62 DCB 3: 285-7
  • Kelsey, Henry, 1667-1724 DCB 2: 307-15
  • Middleton, Christopher, d 1770 DCB 3: 446-50
  • Mitchell, Thomas, fl 1743-51 DCB 3: 453-4
  • Nixon, John, 1623-92 DCB 1: 518-20
  • Norton, Moses, 1735-73 DCB 4: 583-5
  • Norton, Richard, 1701-41 DCB 3: 489-90
  • Radisson, Pierre-Esprit, 1640-1710 DCB 2: 535-40
  • Scroggs, John, fl 1718-24 DCB 2: 604
  • Smith, Joseph, d 1765 DCB 3: 594-5
  • Walker, Nehemiah, fl ca 1670-90 DCB 1: 666

    • note: DCB stands for Dictionary of Canadian Biography

    The following were also Hudson's Bay Company traders: George Atkinson, Jr, Alex Brand, Thomas Buchan, John Clarke, James Clouston, John Isbister, Thomas Isbister, George Jackman, Christoper Norton, William Pink, James Robertson, William Robinson, William Stewart, William Tomison, Joseph Waggoner. Joseph Frobisher and Thomas Frobisher were Montreal traders.

    The originals of the maps by Thornton, Coats, Norton, and Graham are in the HBC Archives, PAM. The map attributed to Dobbs, actually the work of Joseph La France, appeared in Arthur Dobbs, An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay in the North-West Part of America... ( London, 1744). The depictions of explorers' routes and of territory explored are largely based on extensive research in the HBC Archives, particularly in the correspondence (A5, A6, A 10, A11), in the post journals and letters between posts (B3/a and B3/b), and in the map collection. Much use has also been made of the map collection at the PAC.

    Further Readings

  • Cooke, Alan, and Give Holland. The Exploration of Northern Canada, 500-1920: A Chronology. Toronto, Arctic History, 1978
  • Cummings, W.P., S.E. Hillier, D.B. Quinn, and G. Williams. The Exploration of North America, 1630-1776. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974
  • Rich, Edwin Ernest. The History of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1870. 2 vols. London: HBC Record Society, 1958-9
  • Thomson, Don W. Men and Meridians: The History of Surveying and Mapping in Canada. Vol 1. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1966
  • Warkentin, John, and Richard I. Ruggles. Historical Atlas of Manitoba, 1612-1969. Winnipeg: Manitoba Historical Society, 1970