“You know how fond of his liquor Breckinridge was?” added General Johnston, as he went on with his story. “Well, nearly everything to drink had been absorbed. For several days, Breckinridge had found it difficult, if not impossible, to procure liquor. He showed the effect of his enfor...
Treaty No. 2 was the second of the eleven treaties to be signed and established during Canada’s infancy. Also known as, “Manitoba Post Treaty”, named after a post of the Hudson Bay Company where the treaty was signed on August 21, 1871 at Manitoba Post, located on the northwest shore...
The pig belonged to Irishman Charles Griffin, an employee of the Hudson Bay Company. The incident sparked a much bigger conflict between American and British residents of the island, the Pig War. The Hudson Bay Company claimed San Juan Island as its own during the 1840s,...
The pig belonged to Irishman Charles Griffin, an employee of the Hudson Bay Company. The incident sparked a much bigger conflict between American and British residents of the island, the Pig War. The Hudson Bay Company claimed San Juan Island as its own during the 1840s, ...
In the Bay of Fundy, however, the terrace occurs at a depth of 37 m, a feature of fundamental importance to the distribution of surficial sediments in the Bay (Fader 1989). [FIGURES 55 OMITTED] Centered over Hudson Bay, the Laurentide ice sheet blanketed most of Canada and extended far...
The mansion house and grounds occupy ten acres on the beautiful slope of the Hudson, at the foot of Eighty-Sixth Street, at a convenient distance from the Bloomingdale Road … it is a means of directing to its protecting walls some sister trembling on the brink of ruin. The natural bathing...
Hudson and Oliver P. Robbins to erect toll house in Newhall Pass. December 23: Beale having completed his initial construction contract, Board of Superivsors orders him to keep cutting down the Newhall Pass road to a 20 percent grade. 1864 Private James Gorman establishes community of Gorman...
The second was John Norris who was born in Caithness in 1826 and went to work for the Hudson Bay Company twenty years later. He was a pioneer of the Canadian West, helping to establish the route to Winnipeg in 1850 and then to Edmonton where he settled in 1864. He married a local Met...
such as Samuel de Champlain’s exploration and settlement of the area in 1604, while others, such as Henry Hudson’s bombardment and looting of a village on the Penobscot River in 1609, were not. Instead of finding the mythical city of Norumbega, reputed to be rich in gold, silver, and...
On October 29, “Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spi...