The Great Company, 1667-1871: Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants-adventurers Trading Into Hudson's Bay, Volum 1Smith, Elder & Company, 1900 - 541 pàgines |
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The Great Company: Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants ... Beckles Willson Visualització completa - 1899 |
The Great Company, 1667-1871: Being a History of the Honourable ..., Volum 1 Beckles Willson Visualització completa - 1900 |
The Great Company: Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants ... Beckles Willson Visualització completa - 1899 |
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Adventurers afterwards Albany amongst arrived Assiniboines Bailey beaver BIBYE LAKE boundaries Bourbon Bridgar bushrangers Canada canoes cargo century Charles charter Chevalier de Troyes chief Chouart colony command commerce Company's ship coureurs des bois Court Crees crew Dablon declared despatched discovery Duke Dutch enemy England English enterprise expedition explorers favour Fort Albany Fort Bourbon forts France Frenchmen fur-trade furs Gillam Governor granted hands Honourable Hudson's Bay Company Iberville Indians Island Jérémie Jesuits journey King Lake land leagues letter Lewis London Lord Majesty matter merchants Middleton Moose Nekauba Nonsuch North North-West northern party passage peltries Port Nelson possession Prince Rupert Quebec Radisson Radisson and Groseilliers region Royal Rupert's Land Rupert's River sailed savages sent servants settlement Sieur skins soon South Sea Straits surrender territory took trade Treaty Treaty of Ryswick tribes Troyes Verandrye vessels voyage whole winter York Factory young
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Pàgina xxx - This principle was that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Pàgina xxx - The great maritime powers of Europe discovered and visited different parts of this continent at nearly the same time. The object was too immense for any one of them to grasp the whole; and the claimants were too powerful to submit to the exclusive or unreasonable pretensions of any single potentate. To avoid bloody conflicts, which might terminate disastrously to all, it was necessary for the nations of Europe to establish some principle which all...
Pàgina vi - And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin ; yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life...
Pàgina 227 - ... and are still ready to prove. These matters have been so fully and clearly made out by .them that even the French themselves, with all their sophistry and equivocation, have not been able to disprove. Therefore we shall proceed to inform your Lordships of the present melancholy prospect of their trade and settlement in Hudson's Bay, and that none of His Majesty's plantations are left in such a deplorable state as those of this Company, for by their great losses by the French, both in times of...
Pàgina 88 - The sole means to prevent them succeeding in what is prejudicial to us in this regard, would be to drive them by main force from that Bay, which belongs to us ; or if there would be an objection to coming to that extremity, to construct forts on the rivers falling into the lakes, in order to stop the Indians at these points.
Pàgina 318 - In case you are attacked at Henly House, and notwithstanding a vigorous resistance you should have the misfortune to be overpowered, then you are to nail up the cannon, blow up the House, and destroy everything that can be of service to the enemy, and make the best retreat you can to the factory.
Pàgina 147 - Groszeliers, and in truth you ought to prevent these sort of proceedings, which are entirely unwarranted, coming under His Majesty's eyes. You have herein done what the English will be able to make a handle of, since in virtue of your ordinance you caused a vessel to be surrendered which ought strictly to be considered a pirate, as it had no commission ; and the English will not fail to say that you so fully recognized the regularity of...
Pàgina 264 - France were circumscribed by the Treaty of Utrecht, and it is difficult to determine precisely the new boundaries assigned to it. The general interpretation adopted by the British geographers, as the country gradually became better known from that time up to the final cession of Canada, was that the boundary ran along the high lands separating the waters that discharged into the St. Lawrence from those that discharge into Hudson's Bay to the sources of the Nipigon River...
Pàgina 226 - Bay: But the Possession of those Places which were taken by the French during the Peace that preceded this present War, and were retaken by the English during this War, shall be left to the French by virtue of the foregoing Article.
Pàgina 246 - Majesty did not thiuk tit to receive any Act of Cession from the French King, and has therefore insisted only upon an order from that Court for delivering possession to such persons as should be authorized by Her Majesty to take it ; by this means the title of the Company is acknowledged, and they will come into the immediate enjoyment of their property without further trouble.