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Williams, Glyndwr.

Highlights of the First 200 Years of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Williams, Glyndwr. Beaver No 301 (Autumn 1970) 1-65.
  • Arctic Reading: Canada
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p. 60, has good picture of the library at York Factory—serious books & 19th-century novels and bound magazines.

The British Search for the Northwest Passage in the Eighteenth Century

Williams, Glyndwr. London: Royal Commonwealth Society by Longmans, 1962.
  • Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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An excellent account of the major British voyages of the 18th-century, the intrigues behind them, the delusional nature of some attempts, and some minor successes.

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