Carte angloise de la Baye de Hudson ou la compagnie apellee Hudson Bay fait son commerce : tirée de la liasse des concecions accordée a plusiers compagnis par le Roy l'Angleterre pour differens commerces ; depost remise a Monseigneur le Marechal le 8 Novembre, 1719

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Carte angloise de la Baye de Hudson ou la compagnie apellee Hudson Bay fait son commerce : tirée de la liasse des concecions accordée a plusiers compagnis par le Roy l'Angleterre pour differens commerces ; depost remise a Monseigneur le Marechal le 8 Novembre, 1719
Description:
French copy of an unidentified English map probably compiled in the previous century; most place names in English. Illustrates the competing fur trade claims of Hudson's Bay Company and the Compagnie du Nord; identifies sites associated with the early European exploration of Hudson Bay, particularly the 1682-1683 expedition headed by Pierre Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers. Prominently labels the Nelson River winter camps of Radisson, HBC governor John Bridgar, ship captain Benjamin Gillam, and Sir Thomas Button (Button's expedition wintered there in 1612).
Contributor:
Le Marechal, fl. 1719
Date:
1719
Format:
Maps
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Edward E. Ayer Collection
Subjects:
Hudson's Bay Company--Maps--Early works to 1800
Compagnie du Nord--Maps--Early works to 1800
Fur trade--Hudson Bay--Maps--Early works to 1800
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Hudson Bay--Maps--Early works to 1800
Hudson Bay--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800
Radisson, Pierre Esprit, ca. 1636-1710
Des Groseilliers, Médard Chouart, sieur, b. 1618
Bridgar, John, fl. 1678-1687
Gillam, Benjamin
Button, Thomas, Sir, d. 1634
Places:
Canada > Hudson Bay
Extent:
1 ms. map : hand col. ; 493 x 685 mm., on sheet 563 x 730 mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6108vw27g
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
French
English
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991815078805867
Notes:
Monseigneur le Marechal not identified, but possibly a commissioner involved in North American boundary negotiations held in Paris during 1719; cf. Smith.
Sheet 110 of 115 (i.e. 117; includes sheets 71A and 106A) numbered leaves in the Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, detailing French colonial interests worldwide, ca. 1640-ca. 1726.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, grey, brown, yellow, red); mounted on cloth.
Call #:
Ayer MS map 30 sheet 110

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