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Hudson's Bay Company Centenary Celebrations, reel 1 of 18
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Reel consists of the following footage: Introductory title and text explaining the film and the history of the HBC; elevated view of the city of Montreal; loading the S.S. Nascopie in the Montreal harbour; S.S. Nascopie on the St. Lawrence River; ice flows off the coast of Labrador; Captain Mack on the deck of the S.S. Nascopie; Cape Chidley, the northernmost point of Labrador; S.S. Nascopie navigating through ice flows; HBC post Port Burwell; HBC employees and Inuit unloading supplies at Port Burwell; Inuit women chopping wood; Inuit women posing for the camera and modeling clothes; Inuit children leaving a house.
A video reference copy of this film is available for viewing in the Archives' Research Room.
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Original Format |
1 film: silent, 35 mm
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Former Codes |
British Film Institute location code: 2030311AQ
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00:14
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Title: "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay"
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00:43
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Title: "Produced for The 250th Anniversary of the H.B.C. by the Educational Films Co. Ltd."
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00:55
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Title: "On May 2d, 1670, King Charles II signed the charter incorporating the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, giving them sway over the whole of 'those seas, streights and bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds --- that be within the entrance of the streights commonly called Hudson's Streights."
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01:36
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Title: "Prince Rupert, the first Governor, lent to the infant Company a prestige which was invaluable. He piloted the Company through its first twelve and most difficult years, shaping it from an idea only, to a vast trading concern."
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02:04
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Title: "The 'Nonsuch Ketch' sailed from England on the first Hudson's Bay expedition."
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02:47
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Title: "Two hundred and fifty years later."
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02:52
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Title: "The City of Montreal."
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03:14
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Title: "To-day annual expeditions are made into Hudson's Bay from Montreal."
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03:36
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Title: "A vastly different cargo from that of two and half centuries ago is now taken into the Far North."
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04:10
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Title: "On the good ship 'Nascopie' sail each year representatives of the Hudson's Bay Company, who are assigned to various trading posts and do not return to civilization for three years."
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05:09
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Title: "The ship steams steadily northward but large floes of ice are met off the Labrador Coast."
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05:52
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Title: "Fog and no observations make the ship's captain anxious to sight Cape Chidley, the most northern point of Labrador."
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06:17
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Title: "'Like a giant sand-blast these huge masses of ice have been whirled, grinding and eroding around the Bay, only to be disgorged through Hudson's Straits.'"
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06:50
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Title: "The 'Nascopie' bravely plows through heavy ice. The photographer risks life sitting up his camera on a floating ice cake to film these scenes."
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07:56
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Title: "At the Hudson's Bay post, Port Burwell, a forty-foot tide has changed the rocky coast into veritable mountains of ice."
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09:37
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Title: "Supplies for this post are placed in two small boats lashed together and thus taken ashore."
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11:01
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Title: "Eskimo men land the cargo-"
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11:24
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Title: "While their better halves prepare the lunch."
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12:03
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Title: "Advance fashions - 1920."
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12:20
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Title: "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe."
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