James Isham’s Observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743 and Notes and Observations on a Book Entitled

Isham, James. A Voyage to Hudsons Bay in the Dobbs Galley, 1749.Edited with an Introduction by E. E. Rich. (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1949.
  • Hudson's Bay Company.
  • Arctic Reading: Canada
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James Isham was employed by the HBC from 1732 and as chief of Fort York from 1737, According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Volume III) “Isham was at once a skilled and understanding trader, a perceptive planner and strategist, and a conscientious and observant natural historian.” He was not an expert on the fur trading business, but he did develop expertise in the subject of Indian vocabularies