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	HUDSON BAY - LoveToKnow Article on HUDSON BAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The centre and west of the main bay are absolutely free from shoals, rocks or islands, but down its east coast extend two lines of small islands, one close to shore, the other at 70 to 100 m.
		Geologically the greater part of the Hudson Bay district belongs to the Laurentian system, though there are numerous outcrops of later formation; CambroSilurian on the south and west, and to the north of Cape Jones (the north-eastern extremity of James Bay) a narrow belt of Cambrian rocks, of which the islands are composed.
		The bay abounds with fish, of which the chief are cod, salmon, porpoise and whales.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUDSON_BAY.htm (898 words)

	Churchill, Manitoba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Churchill, Manitoba, is a town on the shore of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada, situated at a latitude of 58.47 N. The small community stands at an ecotone, the juncture of two ecoregions: the boreal forest to the south, and the Arctic tundra to the north.
		The first permanent settlement was a log fort built at the mouth of the Churchill River in 1717 as a part of the extensive fur-trading network established by the Hudson's Bay Company - mostly to capitalize on the northern trade, out of the reach of York Factory.
		The town gains its name from John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who was governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in the late 1600s and an ancestor of Winston Churchill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Churchill,_Manitoba (873 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hudson Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hudson Bay is a large body of water in northeastern Canada.
		On the east it is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by Hudson Strait, and on the north with the rest of the Arctic Ocean by Foxe Channel (which is not considered part of the bay) and Fury and Hecla Strait.
		Hudson Bay was named after Henry Hudson who explored the bay in 1610 on his ship the Discovery.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hudson-Bay (1181 words)

	Churchill River (Manitoba)
		The river was travelled by Cree and Chipewyan, and Jens MUNK wintered at its mouth in 1619-20.
		The Hudson's Bay Company built a post near its mouth in 1717; it was called Churchill River, Churchill, and Churchill Factory until 1719, when the name was changed to PRINCE OF WALES FORT.
		The North West Company began using the Churchill River after Joseph FROBISHER established a trade link between it and the Montréal route via the Saskatchewan and Sturgeon Weir rivers and Frog Portage.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001625 (321 words)

	Polar bear watching
		Churchill, Manitoba, did not start out as "the Polar Bear Capital of the World." So rich was the early fur trade in the area, the Hudson's Bay Company established a post there as early as 1685.
		Shipment out of Churchill was much more economical than from the head of the Great Lakes; the distance was shorter to most destination ports and need for trans-shipment en route much lessened, mindful that the St. Lawrence Seaway had not yet been opened to the Great Lakes.
		Churchill is now also a regular port of call for arctic cruise ships from June to October.
	ks.essortment.com /polarbearwatc_reql.htm (767 words)

	Hudson's Bay Company. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North America and for exploration toward the discovery of the Northwest Passage to Asia.
		The Great Company, as the Hudson’s Bay Company was known, did a highly profitable business, but Hudson Bay was claimed also by the French, who sent expeditions against the posts that recently had been established near the mouths of the Moose, Albany, Severn, and Nelson rivers.
		The Hudson’s Bay men were stirred out of their lethargy: Samuel Hearne founded Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River in 1774, and thereafter the Hudson’s Bay Company took a greater interest in the West.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hu/HudsonsB.html (1035 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hudson Bay (Oceans And Continents) - Encyclopedia
		Hudson Bay and James Bay (its southern extension) and all their islands border Nunavut Territory, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec.
		Hudson Bay occupies the southernmost portion of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a depression in the Canadian Shield formed during the Pleistocene epoch by the weight of the continental ice sheet.
		Hudson Bay moderates the local climate; it is ice-free and open to navigation from mid-July to October.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HudsonBa.html (411 words)

	WINGS Birding Tours to Churchill, Manitoba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Located at about 60 degrees N on the western shore of Hudson Bay, Churchill has long attracted birdwatchers, in part because it is one of the few communities above treeline accessible by rail but more significantly because its location in a transition zone between boreal forest, tundra and Hudson Bay offers an unusually diversified avifauna.
		Since 1930, when Churchill became an important grain port with the completion of the railroad from the south, many biological investigations have been conducted here including comprehensive studies on the breeding biology of shorebirds.
		Churchill's 15 species of breeding shorebirds are particularly visible at this season and each of our outings will be brightened by such sights as Whimbrels, Hudsonian Godwits or Stilt Sandpipers hovering and singing low overhead or Red-necked Phalaropes swimming just inches away.
	wingsbirds.com /tours/churchill.htm (1080 words)

	Physiographic Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An ancestral Churchill River was a major stream of this system; with its tributaries, it was to a large extent responsible for the removal of the Cretaceous rocks from the Shield.
		In its middle reaches, where the Churchill flows on the Shield, it consists of a string of structurally controlled lakes separated by short stretches of fast water over rapids and falls, the positions of which are again governed by geological structures and lithological differences that control the resistance to erosion.
		The changed river regime caused by the building of the Whitesands Dam at the southern end of Reindeer Lake in the early 1940's, as well as the extensive fire damage to a large forested area south-west of the lake, are believed to be significant factors in any variations in sediment load in the Reindeer River.
	canoesaskatchewan.rkc.ca /geology/article.htm (11351 words)

	Churchill River -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It lies on the west coast of Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Churchill River.
		The bleak, treeless coastline is steep and forbidding.
		Almost all of the peninsula is drained by the Churchill River, known for Churchill Falls.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9082577?tocId=9082577 (862 words)

	Churchill Northern Studies Centre: History of Churchill on Hudson Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Munck expedition wintered on the west peninsula of the Churchill river where 61 men died of scurvy and cold temperatures.
		Late 17th Century Conflict between England and France for Colonial Domination Late 17th Century explorers were attracted to the Hudson Bay area, not as a passage to Asia but as an area rich in fur-bearing animals such as beaver, fox, and marten.
		Sloop Cove is located on the western peninsula, 4 km from the mouth of the Churchill River and about 2 km from Fort Prince of Wales.
	www.churchillmb.net /~cnsc/ab-attrac-hist.html (1090 words)

	Arctic Ecology
		Churchill, Manitoba, is located in the transition zone between boreal forest and tundra.
		This entire region lies within the Hudson Bay Lowlands, where tundra polygons and eskers are common, ponds dot the land, and raised beaches continue to form under isostatic rebound.
		The town of Churchill is a small settlement at the mouth of the Churchill River and is a common stopover for people travelling to the High Arctic.
	www.uoguelph.ca /zoology/courses/ZOO4610 (375 words)

	AN ONLINE INTERACTIVE GEOGRAPHY GAME AND QUIZ SITE ON CANADA? Geography Place Games and Quizes! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Capital of Yukon Territory, on the Yukon River, is a commercial and transportation center for an extensive mining and trapping region.
		Capital of Canada, situated on the southern bank of the Ottawa River opposite Hull, Quebec, it is the administrative center of the country and a commercial and manufacturing hub.
		Capital of the province of Quebec, at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Saint-Charles rivers.
	www.standard.net.au /~garyradley/games/GRCanada.htm (2361 words)

	MHS Transactions: A Forgotten Northern Fortress
		The English Company of Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay occupied the mouths of all the rivers with pallisaded forts or factories, and fished, hunted and traded from them, visited once a year by ships, which were watched for by that daring rover, D'Iberville, as Drake had watched for the Spanish galleons.
		Joseph Robson, who was the surveyor in charge of construction for some years, published a book on the operations of the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1752, in which he gives many details regarding the size and form of the fort.
		Three of the bastions had arches for storehouses, forty feet three inches by ten feet, and in the fourth was built a stone magazine twenty-four feet, long and ten feet wide in the clear with a passage to it through the gorge of the bastion twenty-four feet long and four feet wide.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/transactions/1/fortress.shtml (1501 words)

	NATURE. Polar Bear Invasion. Bear Trouble \| PBS
		Some of the European explorers sloshed ashore where the sweet waters of the broad Churchill River tumble into the bay's salty shoals, eager to set foot on the new world.
		They come to see the hundreds of polar bears that gather each autumn at the river's mouth, waiting for the bay to freeze so they can amble out on to the pack ice and hunt seals, their favorite meal.
		Since the town was established in the 1700s as a fur trading post, residents have lived with the knowledge that their homes are directly in the path of the bears' annual migration.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/polarbear/trouble.html (396 words)

	RiverWatchOnline
		The Hudson's Bay Company Depot on the Hayes River at York Factory is being lost to riverbank erosion.
		The Hudson's Bay Company Depot at York Factory, one of the oldest wooden buildings in Western Canada, will eventually be lost to riverbank erosion, Dawn Bronson, superintendent of the Manitoba field unit for Parks Canada, said yesterday.
		The fast-moving river is one kilometre wide at York Factory, where enormous ice jams pile into the shore every spring, she said.
	www.prairiepublic.org /features/riverwatch/news/winnipeg_press/02_16_04.html (876 words)

	The Fur Trade ... The Hudson's Bay and NorthWest Companies
		The Hudson's Bay Company was the established authority in the Northwest and set up the Council of Rupert's Land and the Council of Assiniboia as the appointed governments of the region.
		Their main function was to implement the policies of the Hudson's Bay Company in the region.
		The Hudson's Bay Company tried to impose restrictions on the pemmican trade in 1814, which brought about a huge clash between the Metis and the newly arrived Lord Selkirk colonists.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Atrium/4832/hudson3.html (1000 words)

	Churchill River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Churchill River (Hudson Bay), which runs through Saskatchewan and Manitoba and drains into Hudson Bay;
		Churchill River (Atlantic), which drains the Smallwood Reservoir in Labrador into the Atlantic Ocean via Lake Melville.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Churchill_River (109 words)

	Hudson bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hudson Bay An inland sea of east-central Canada connected to the Atlantic Ocean by Hudson Strait, lying between southern Baffin Island and northern.
		Hudson's Bay Company, corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North.
		Hudson Bay, large gulf or inland sea in the Keewatin and Baffin regions of the Nunavut Territory, Dynamic Map.
	yournetpath.com /q/hudson-bay.html (1341 words)

	Discoverers Web: Henry Kelsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company was chartered, mostly through the work of the French traders Groseilliers and Radisson.
		He succeeded in his order to convince the Indians to come to the Hudson's Bay to trade, despite the objections of the well-armed Cree Indians, tried to make peace between the Cree and the Gros Ventres, and lived among the various native peoples of the region for two years.
		They remained based only in their posts on the shores of Hudson Bay until the journeys of Samuel Hearne in the 1770s.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/kelsey.html (326 words)

	Hudson Bay Polar Bear Explorer Tour \| Churchill \| Hudson Bay
		In the autumn, as the ice reforms on Hudson Bay, polar bears migrate back to their dens using their accustomed path through the town and its environs.
		Churchill is the most northern point reached by regularly scheduled passenger train service on the North American continent, excluding the isolated railroads of Alaska.
		Churchill unquestionably is a "soft adventure" destination and, on this tour, you truly will experience the remote beauty of the Canadian arctic frontier.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/8595.html (1568 words)

	Marcel Granger — Churchill River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1619, Norwegian-bom explorer Jens Eriksen Munk was forced to winter at the mouth of the Churchill, where he and two others survived, but 59 crewmen perished.
		The Hudson' s Bay Company (HBC) ("Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson Bay") was chartered in 1670 and by 1686 its fur traders had sailed into the Churchill River.
		As significant as it was, the Churchill fur trade depended upon Indians bringing furs to the post.
	www.lino.com /~marcelg/rivch_an.htm (369 words)

	canoeski rock art camp archaeological canoe tour
		However, the work that has been done in the Churchill River Upland Ecoregion, the area where the Rock Art Camp is held, suggests that it was first inhabited about 8000 years ago after the retreat of the last glacier some 9000 years ago.
		Hearne was moving inland on the Churchill River from Hudson's Bay to establish fur trading posts for the Hudson's Bay Co. The Churchill at that time formed the boundary between the Cree-speaking people to the south and the Dene-speaking Chipewyan people to the north.
		The glaciers were centred near Hudson Bay and as they flowed from the centre they moved across northern Saskatchewan in a northeast to southwest direction.
	www.canoeski.com /SaskArch.htm (2527 words)

	Beluga Whales in the Churchill River
		In summertime, the Hudson Bay and Churchill River are alive with Beluga whales.
		The water was crisp but not cold--downright balmy compared to the water I would experience a few days later when I ran into Hudson Bay as a participant in the Parks Canada Hudson Bay Dip and Relay Race.
		Once in the water, I began to notice that the Churchill River at high tide is at least a mile wide, deep enough that whales could swim under me, and it has a definite, somewhat disconcerting current.
	www.chem.ucla.edu /~alice/explorations/churchill/whale.htm (938 words)

	Churchill River - SK
		When the river’s waters support you, carry you along, cool your skin, satisfy your thirst for something cold on a hot day, and boil up for tea on a chilly night, you’re beginning to be on more familiar terms with it.
		Some rivers have just the right combination of distance from the greatest concentrations of civilized society, long sections of relatively smooth water and enough wildness to make them a delight for canoeist at all levels of experience.
		The Churchill’s many lakes are dotted with islands, some so tiny they barely support a couple of spruce trees, some so large they might as well be the mainland itself.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?859 (1214 words)

	MCA Trip Reports: Seal River June 21-July 11,1996 by Steve Kohlhepp
		The Seal River is a big river, a quarter of a mile wide in many places and very, very fast with many stretches of rapids tumbling for over three or four miles.
		It is also a remote northern river with the only way in or out is by bush plane, or a risky paddle by way of Hudson Bay to Churchill.
		I believe we were fortunate in that we paddled the river early in the season when the river had more water in it than later in low water causing more rock gardens and more difficult route finding.
	www.canoe-kayak.org /pages/t2.html (1892 words)

	Churchill -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		English poet Charles Churchill was noted for his lampoons and polemical satires written in heroic couplets.
		Churchill was known for combining these critiques with dramatic inventions that challenged the boundaries of traditional theater.
		In his first term in Parliament, Churchill soon showed that he was to be a highly individual politician.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9082571?tocId=9082571 (733 words)

	Bad news for polar bears
		Churchill is where bears gather to wait out the fall because it's the first place in Hudson Bay to freeze, since the freshwater from the Churchill River dilutes the sea water.
		The ice freezes the bay as the weather cools in late-October to mid-November, leading the bears to their hunting ground where they feed on seals until the spring.
		Churchill residents and tourists have to stick to the roads and are cautioned not to go out at night, because behind every rock there could be a hungry bear.
	www.canoe.ca /AllAboutCanoesNewsJan00/000110_bears.html (553 words)

	Edited Hansard * 1110 * Number 020 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My riding is called Churchill River, which obviously has within it the Churchill River.
		However, the river flows into Hudson Bay, so all pollution in the water of Churchill River affects Hudson Bay and the Arctic region.
		It does not start north of the 60th parallel, so anything that happens in the river system, in the watershed area, affects the northern regions and the circumpolar regions.
	www.parl.gc.ca /36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/020_1999-11-15/han020_1110-e.htm (597 words)

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