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Podcast: Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Episode: Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(3): Treasures of the fur trade
Description: In this final episode of Explore’s journey into the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company as it turns 350 years old, we take one last trip into the HBC vaults at the Manitoba Museum with curator Amelia Fay. As a way of illustrating the importance of company fur traders to the 100 year old HBC collection, Amelia pulls out three items donated by Julian Camsell, HBC Chief Factor for the MacKenzie District in Canada’s Arctic and father of Charles Camsell, founding president of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society.Through these items, Amelia discusses how HBC fur t...