A VISIT TO MOOSE FACTORY, MOOSONEE BY THE POLAR BEAR EXPRESS, HISTORY

AN COMPILATION OF PHOTOS, SLIDES FROM 1970 TO 1972. ONTARIO CANADA
Don was sent on the Polar Bear Express to Moosonee and Moose Factory on James Bay and was flown in a 1930's Albatross to Fort Albany to interview an old retired fur trader. The interview was published in Moccasin Footprints, the internal magazine of the Hudson Bay Company.

Don spent much of 1971/72 coping with Ottawa's heaviest snowfall in a century and admiring the view of the Ottawa River from the third floor reading gallery of the Public Archives of Canada for an MA in Canadian Studies at Carleton University. He sifted through microfilmed journals of fur factors of the Hudson's Bay Company, as far back as 1670 for NE Ontario. Journals had daily entries recording the number of fur pelts traded, health of the Indians and unusual events such as drownings or murders. One assignment was on the settlement of the clay belt in Northern Ontario in the 1920's.

Don worked in Moosonee and Moose Factory from April to the end of August, 1972.
VISITED IN 1988

DON PUGH

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