RECEPTION TEST
2.5 (-2.25) ' Life and Work in the British Empire 6 Canada
Mr GEORGE BINNEY: 'Life at a Hudson's Bay Company s Post
IN HIS BROADCAST this afternoon George Binney will trace the history of Hudson Bay from its discovery by the English navigator and explorer, Henry Hudson , in 1610, down to the present day. In 1670 Charles II gave a Charter to the Hudson Bay Company, and they were given a vast expanse of land round this great inland sea, and they started there and then to trade for furs with the Indians, to search for gold, and to look for safe and quick routes to China.
In this land of ice and cold they built a trading port at the mouth of one of the rivers, and proceeded to carry on. George Binney went out with three expeditions to Spitzbergen in 1921, 1923, and 1924, the last two of which he led, and spent five years working for the Hudson Bay Company. He will tell schools that one trading port has grown to two hundred trading ports at the present day.
He will speak of Red Indians and canoes; of river ice and bales of fur; of the settlers that went out there, and of how the posts became the centre of villages, and the villages became towns. He will talk of Eskimos ; of the Indians' fear of the sea, and of the Eskimos' love of hunting in it; of seals and polar bears and walrus ; of snow houses and dog teams.