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“Set in 1766, this harrowing #novel centers on an expedition organized by the head of a #Hudson’sBayCompany trading post, in #Canada, who dispatches a group to secretly search for a #gold deposit on remote lands inhabited by Indigenous tribes.” www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
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“Set in 1766, this harrowing #novel centers on an expedition organized by the head of a #Hudson’sBayCompany trading post, in #Canada, who dispatches a group to secretly search for a #gold deposit on remote lands inhabited by Indigenous tribes.” www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 105: Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Although Indigenous food sovereignty has been attacked and eroded by multiple histories of colonial oppression, rebuilding it can happen—through intergenerational learning, land-based practices, and relationality.https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2185102/
Kaylee Michnik, talks about her article, “Moving Your Body, Soul, and Heart to Share and Harvest Food” from Vol. 8, No. 2 of Canadian Food Studies (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.446), including the roles we all play in reconciliation & decolonization. Courtney Vaughan offers a response to the text and its challenges. Starting it off is Alexia Moyer’s account of the tasty and tenuous history of camas cultivation by Coast Salish peoples.#DigestingFoodStudies
#Indigenous
#IndigenousFood
#IndigenousKnowledge
#CoastSalish
#LekwungenPeople
#FirstNations
#FoodSovereignty
#FoodSystems
#Decolonization
#HudsonsBayCompany
#Reconciliation
#Camas
#DeathCamas
#ZigadenousVenenosis
#FoodPodcast
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Snuneymuxw Coal Story
The main downtown shopping street in Nanaimo, Commercial Street, is currently undergoing renovation. Like all renovations, it will be great when it is finished. It will have bike lanes and expanded sidewalks for outdoor restaurant patios, and will generally be more visitor-friendly.
In the process of doing the work the engineers discovered a large void underneath the original road. It was part of an old coal mine that was once the city’s main industry. This discovery delayed the reconstruction project as they figured out how best to fill the void and stabilize the other mine workings. That work has been completed and the upgrade to the shopping street is nearly finished.
While on my walk this morning I saw a sculpture dedicated to someone who unwittingly was the cause of all these problems. The information on the plaque includes the following:
Ki-Et-Sa-Kun (Known as Coal Tyee) 1810 (circa)-1881.
Revealed Nanaimo coal deposits to Hudson’s Bay Company in 1849.
Sculptor: Dorothea E. Kennedy.
Beneath that plaque is another which tells the story of the mine:
“Snuneymuxw Coal Story
The Snuneymuxw knew of pitst, the black rock outcrops around Nanaimo harbour, for thousands of years. The oral history warned that this black rock belonged to Qwunus, the black whale that migrated annually through the Georgia Strait. When the Hudson’s Bay Company established a post at Ts-Ah-Mus (Victoria) two Snuneymuxw men, Ki-Et-Sa-Kun and his young cousin Hay-Wa-Kum, gathered up a blanket of coal to trade with the blacksmiths for iron hoops. They were taken to Governor James Douglas who was highly pleased and gave Ki-Et-Sa-Kun a new name, Coal Tyee. When they returned home the Snuneymuxw were very displeased, as the two men had broken a traditional taboo by removing the coal. They were sent to watch the water and make peace with the whales.
Not long after, Joseph McKay was sent by Governor Douglas to visit the region. Hay-Wa-Kum remembered McKay dancing on top of the coal seams with great joy. McKay later established the Nanaimo Hudson’s Bay Company post beside the Snuneymuxw village on Commercial Inlet. The Snuneymuxw mined 2,000 tons of surface coal in the first year of the Hudson’s Bay Company mining operation. Women carried the coal in baskets to the waiting ships. When coal was dug underground, Snuneymuxw men worked side by side with the early miners. Later they worked as coal trimmers in the local wharfs.
Today few whales visit the Georgia Strait.
This account of Nanaimo’s coal history courtesy of the Snuneymuxw First Nation.“
Not only was the local mine recently made completely defunct by being filled in, but also this week saw the liquidation of all the Hudson’s Bay Company’s department stores in Canada. Their intellectual property, including the name, logo, and iconic stripes have been sold to another retail chain, Canadian Tire.
I spent a little time watching the water today thinking about whales, First Nations, coal mines, and the Hudson’s Bay Company before I headed home.
#blackWhale #FirstNations #GeorgiaStrait #HudsonSBayCompany #mine #Nanaimo #Snuneymuxw
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So King Chuck is coming to Canada next week, to casually remind the US the country is still part of the Commonwealth, and not up ‘for sale’.
Perhaps worthy of note - at the same time a company that has been around for +350 years - thru wars (including with US), pandemics and all else - and that essentially created what the settlers called Canada is closing down, thanks to the ineptitude of American investors. Great timing. Maybe he’ll get a blanket.
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The proposed liquidation of many of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s (HBC) collections that together trace over three centuries of Indigenous and European interaction across this continent represents a profound threat to Canada’s collective memory and identity.An Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that the company could move forward with an auction of 4,400 items — including historic artifacts and artworks.
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I was a courier in Toronto in 2000/ 2001. I'd deliver mail to HBC's corporate headquarters. They had the HBC charter in a display case in their lobby.
The display case was like a high-end jewelry case with interior lighting, while the rest of the lobby was a little dim. I would look at the charter in awe of its age and historical consequence.
I hope it is obtained by Canada and put in a museum.
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Why We Must Save Hudson’s Bay: A Call For Action
Why We Must Save Hudson’s Bay: A Call For Action #hbc #hudsonsbaycompanyhttps://dominionreview.ca/why-we-must-save-hudsons-bay-a-call-for-action/
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@chris It’s a physical reminder of Canada’s corporate underpinnings and the genocidal takeover of the land via its iconic smallpox blankets. Good riddance.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Bay_Company :
It looks like the end of the #HudsonsBayCompany has been coming for a while:
"In 2006, Jerry Zucker, an American businessman, bought HBC for US$1.1 billion."
The real estate was apparently reorganized under its own holding company:
"It also owns or manages approximately 3.7 million square metres (40 million square feet) of gross leasable real estate through its HBC Properties and Investments business unit."
(Granted, that "or" seems to do some heavy lifting to obfuscate how much it actually "owns" vs. just "manages".)
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It would be a shame if the #HudsonsBayCompany is liquidated. Of course the present owners deserve much blame, but it's hard for anyone to make money in department stores these days.
Speaking of business news, has anyone seen a good history of how #MountainEquipmentCoop collapsed during the pandemic?
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Ship logs from 1740 to 1855. Notice the steady stream of ships in and out of that Artic. I suspect almost exclusively heading to Hudson's Bay as part of the #HudsonsBayCompany
Map from https://peteratwoodprojects.wordpress.com/portfolio/19th-century-ships-log-entries/
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The project, announced two years ago, will see the six-storey, 60,000-square-metre downtown building turned into an #Indigenous hub of housing, social services, government offices & cultural space.
#HudsonsBayCompany transferred the #historic building in 2022 to the Southern Chiefs’ Organization, which represents 34 #FirstNation groups in southern #Manitoba.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10523125/ottawa-money-transform-bay-building-indigenous-hub
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Sie glaubten sich allein und isoliert in der Einöde des Polarmeers – und ahnten nicht, dass ganz nahe Europäer vorbei ruderten. Über eine "Nicht-Begegnung" im arktischen #Eismeer im August 1850: In Erinnerung an den Geburtstag von Johann August #Miertsching: https://www.trimaris.de/2023/08/21/ungesehen-aneinander-vorbei/
#polarexpedition #franklinexpedition #HMSInvestigator #polarsea #Arktis #Hooper #Pullen #MackenzieDelta #PellyIsland
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Hudson's Bay, Gap, PetSmart among stores that gave customer data to Facebook's owner | CBC News https://bit.ly/3XgQeKq #Privacy #Facebook #Data #Meta #HBC #PetSmart #DataPrivacy #HudsonsBayCompany #Anthropologie #BestBuyCanada #Gap #Lululemon #Sephora #Fail #EpicFail #cdnpoli @cdnpoli
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Discovered today that a x3 great grandfather from Orphir, Orkney worked for the #HudsonsBayCompany & bought a small farm in Orphir after his return. Checking #Sasine abridgements for something else when I found the one relating to him. Icing on the cake of a lovely 5 days in #Orkney #FamilyHistory #Scotland
