The Battle for the Bay: The Story of the Hudson Bay Railroad by Grant Macewan 1975 Illustrated Hardcover History Book with Maps

The Battle for the Bay: The Story of the Hudson Bay Railroad by Grant Macewan 1975 Illustrated Hardcover History Book with Maps

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, slanted text block, visible edge-wear, slightly bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages) size is approximately 9” x 6”

—Ever since Henry Hudson disappeared in the bay that bears his name, the history of Hudson Bay has tinged with mystery. adventures and explorers battled against the bay in an endeavor to find the elusive northwest passage to Oriental riches French and English fought in the bay in efforts to gain territorial rights for their monarchs to achieve supremacy over the vast for empire of the north and west in men of all kinds have battled long and sometimes bitterly about the value of the bay as a transportation route to the world markets for the bountiful produce of the Canadian planes.

Mr. MacEwan has gathered up the vast amount of history which has accumulated over almost 5 centuries and arranged it in a lively narrative style to lead, event by event, to the achievement of the present and the promise of the future. His perspective is the importance of the Hudson Bay route for the Canadian West, and the great, and still largely unknown, far north within that perspective, he presents the early discoveries, the national rivalries, the political entanglement, in sharp and clear outlines..

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