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CANADA – HUDSON'S BAY Autograph journal kept by Captain Albert Hastings Markham on board the Alert, while surveying conditions in Hudson's Bay on behalf of the Canadian government 1886
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CANADA – HUDSON'S BAY
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'UNDER STEAM AND SAIL THE OLD ALERT' – Albert Markham takes his old ship, now in Canadian service, to explore the area round Hudson's Bay. This expedition was undertaken at the behest of the proposed Hudson Bay Railway Company in order to test the navigability of the Hudson Strait, Markham's route being from St John's to York Factory, through Hudson Strait, and then on to Winnipeg by land. Part of Markham's journey was undertaken in the Alert and part in a canoe with a party of Indians. Lieutenant A.R. Gordon RN was in command of the expedition and wrote up the official report, submitted to the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa. Markham wrote up his own account as ʻThrough Hudson's Strait and Bay: A Naval Officer's Holiday Trip', published in Good Words for 1888. Confirmation – were it needed – that this is the actual book carried with him on his journey is provided by one of its openings that is splattered like pressed flowers with the remains of four mosquitoes, the bane of Markham's life on the trip. The report that Markham produced on the navigability of the Hudson's Bay was described as being of 'inestimable value' and he received the official thanks of the Canadian Houses of Parliament (Life, p. 202).





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