Eighteenth Century Naturalists Of Hudson Bay

Author : Stuart Houston,Tim Ball,Mary Houston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773569751

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Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay by Stuart Houston,Tim Ball,Mary Houston Pdf

The authors show that meteorologic data and weather information recorded at the HBC trading posts over two centuries provide the largest and longest consecutive series available anywhere in North America, one that can help us understand the mechanisms and amount of climate change. They demonstrate that Hudson Bay is the second largest site of new bird species named by Linnaeus and reproduce some of George Edwards' colour paintings of these new species. Six informative appendices reveal how the invaluable HBC archives were transferred from London, England, to Winnipeg, correct previous misinterpretations of the collaboration and relative contributions of Thomas Hutchins and Andrew Graham, use two centuries of HBC fur returns to demonstrate the ten-year hare and lynx cycles, tell how the swan trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan, explain how the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada, and offer an extensive list of eighteenth-century Cree names for birds, mammals, and fish. Informative tables list the eighteenth-century surgeons at York Factory and give names and dates for the annual supply ships.

Author : Clarence Stuart Houston,Stuart Houston,Tim Ball,Mary Houston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773522859

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Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay by Clarence Stuart Houston,Stuart Houston,Tim Ball,Mary Houston Pdf

Where Peter Newman's best-selling trilogy captured the essence of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as a business empire, Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the company's early employees, drawing largely on materials in the HBC Winnipeg archives. C. Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary Houston make amends for two centuries of neglect of these collector-observers, showing that fur traders in isolated trading posts on Hudson Bay were involved in some of the earliest stirrings of science on the continent and that the fur traders and Native people worked together in a remarkable symbiosis, beneficial to both parties.The authors show that meteorologic data and weather information recorded at the HBC trading posts over two centuries provide the largest and longest consecutive series available anywhere in North America, one that can help us understand the mechanisms and amount of climate change. They demonstrate that Hudson Bay is the second largest site of new bird species named by Linnaeus and reproduce some of George Edwards' colour paintings of these new species. Six informative appendices reveal how the invaluable HBC archives were transferred from London, England, to Winnipeg, correct previous misinterpretations of the collaboration and relative contributions of Thomas Hutchins and Andrew Graham, use two centuries of HBC fur returns to demonstrate the ten-year hare and lynx cycles, tell how the swan trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan, explain how the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada, and offer an extensive list of eighteenth-century Cree names for birds, mammals, and fish. Informative tables list the eighteenth-century surgeons at York Factory and give names and dates for the annual supply ships.

Author : James Little Baillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:224244194

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Naturalists on Hudson Bay by James Little Baillie Pdf

Author : George A. Cevasco,Lorne Hammond,Richard Harmond,Keir B. Sterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313036491

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Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists by George A. Cevasco,Lorne Hammond,Richard Harmond,Keir B. Sterling Pdf

Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.

Author : Sally Bushell,Julia S. Carlson,Damian Walford Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108472388

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Romantic Cartographies by Sally Bushell,Julia S. Carlson,Damian Walford Davies Pdf

An innovative, interdisciplinary study of cartography as a significant multifaceted cultural practice in Romantic period culture.

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786747870

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Fatal Journey by Peter C. Mancall Pdf

The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudson's small ship became trapped in winter ice. Provisions grew scarce and tensions mounted amongst the crew. Within months, the men mutinied, forcing Hudson, his teenage son, and seven other men into a skiff, which they left floating in the Hudson Bay. A story of exploration, desperation, and icebound tragedy, Fatal Journey vividly chronicles the undoing of the great explorer, not by an angry ocean, but at the hands of his own men.

Author : Tina Loo
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774840767

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States of Nature by Tina Loo Pdf

States of Nature is one of the first books to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social, political, and historical roots. While noting the influence of celebrity conservationists such as Jack Miner and Grey Owl, Tina Loo emphasizes the impact of ordinary people on the evolution of wildlife management in Canada. She also explores the elements leading up to the emergence of the modern environmental movement, ranging from the reliance on and practical knowledge of wildlife demonstrated by rural people to the more aloof and scientific approach of state-sponsored environmentalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004323841

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Naturalists in the Field by Anonim Pdf

Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.

Author : Doreen Starke-Meyerring,Anthony Paré
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781602352704

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Writing in Knowledge Societies by Doreen Starke-Meyerring,Anthony Paré Pdf

The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education.

Author : Steve Nicholls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226583426

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Paradise Found by Steve Nicholls Pdf

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter’s dream, with populations of game too abundant and diverse to even fathom. It’s no wonder these first settlers thought they had discovered a paradise of sorts. Fortunately for us, they left a legacy of copious records documenting what they saw, and these observations make it possible to craft a far more detailed evocation of North America before its settlement than any other place on the planet. Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent’s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. Seamlessly blending firsthand accounts from centuries past with the findings of scientists today, Nicholls also introduces us to a myriad cast of characters who have chronicled the changing landscape, from pre–Revolutionary era settlers to researchers whom he has met in the field. A director and writer of Emmy Award–winning wildlife documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, and PBS, Nicholls deploys a cinematic flair for capturing nature at its most mesmerizing throughout. But Paradise Found is much more than a celebration of what once was: it is also a reminder of how much we have lost along the way and an urgent call to action so future generations are more responsible stewards of the world around them. The result is popular science of the highest order: a book as remarkable as the landscape it recreates and as inspired as the men and women who discovered it.

Author : Theodore Binnema
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442666955

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Enlightened Zeal by Theodore Binnema Pdf

Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly. Working from the company’s voluminous records, Ted Binnema demonstrates the significance of science in the company’s corporate strategies. Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as a corporation with individuals and scientific organizations in England, Scotland, and the United States. The pursuit of scientific knowledge could bring wealth and influence, along with tribute, fame, and renown, but science also brought less tangible benefits: adventure, health, happiness, male companionship, self-improvement, or a sense of meaning. The first study of scientific research in any chartered company over the entire course of its monopoly, Enlightened Zeal expands our understanding of social networks in science, establishes the vast scope of the HBC’s contribution to public knowledge, and will inspire new research into the history of science in other chartered monopolies.

Author : Johann Reinhold Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 0405057628

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Selected Works by Eighteenth-century Naturalists and Travellers by Johann Reinhold Forster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Natural history
ISBN : MINN:31951P00965253Y

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Nature Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian K. Steele
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773589902

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Setting All the Captives Free by Ian K. Steele Pdf

Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Natural history
ISBN : NWU:35558005191727

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The American Naturalist by Anonim Pdf