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English: Image from page 182 of "Canada, the empire of the North; being the romantic story of the new dominion's growth from colony to kingdom" (1909)
Identifier: canadaempireofno00laut

Title: Canada, the empire of the North; being the romantic story of the new dominion's growth from colony to kingdom

Year: 1909 (1900s)

Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936

Subjects: Canada -- History

Publisher: Boston, London : Ginn and company

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cially; but he winked at it,— as he winked at many irregularities in the fur trade,—granted the Company of the North license to trade on HudsonBay, and gave Radissons party passports to fish off Gaspe.In the venture Radisson, Groseillers, and the son Chouart Groseil-lers, invested their all, possibly amounting to $2500 each. Therest of the money for the expedition came from the Godfroys,titled seigneurs of Three Rivers ; Dame Sorel, widow of anofficer in the Carignan Regiment; Le Chesnaye, La Salleslieutenant, and others. The boats were rickety little tubs unfit for rough northern seas,and the crews sulky, underfed men, who threatened mutiny atevery watering place and only refrained from cutting Radissons UP LABRADOR COAST 147 throat because he kept them busy. July n, 1682, the explorerssheered away from the fishing fleet of the St. Lawrence andbegan coasting up the lonely iron shore of Labrador. Ice wasmet sweeping south in mountainous bergs. Over Isle Demons

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MAP OF HUDSON BAY in the Straits of Belle Isle hung storm wrack and brown fog asin the days when Marguerite Roberval pined there. Then theships were cutting the tides of Labrador ; here through fog ; thereskimming a coast that was sheer masonry to the very sky ; again,scudding from storm to refuge of some hole in the wall. 148 CANADA: THE EMPIRE OF THE NORTH Before September the ships rode triumphantly into Five-Fathom-Hole off Nelson River, Hudson Bay. Here two greatrivers, wide as the St. Lawrence, rolled to the sea, separatedby a long tongue of sandy dunes. The north river was theNelson; the south, the Hayes. Approach to both was danger-ous, shallow, sandy, and bowlder strewn ; but Radissons vesselswere light draught, and he ran them in oh the tide to HayesRiver on the south, where his men took possession for Franceand erected log huts as a fort. Groseillers remained at the fort to command the twenty-sevenmen. Young Chouart ranged the swamps and woods for Indians,and Radiss

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