Review of \u3ci\u3e Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay\u3c/i\u3e By Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary Houston

Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay by Stuart and Mary Houston, veteran Saskatchewan ornithologists and historians of northern Canadian exploration, and climatologist Tim Ball provides a welcome, colorful addition to McGill-Queen\u27s University Press\u27s thirty-four-volume Native and Northern Series. The 1670 Crown charter to the Hudson\u27s Bay Company (HBC) granted a vast trading territory including substantial parts of the northern Canadian Plains and a portion of North Dakota and Minnesota. Furs were brought from a network of posts for shipping out of Hudson Bay, primarily at Fort Churchill and York Factory. Most of the posts and their commercial activities were outside of the Great Plains, although Cumberland House in Saskatchewan has figured prominently in Plains history