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2 unusual facts about Hudson's Bay


Fort Vancouver High School

The Vancouver School District decided to change the name of the school in 1956 when a second high school, Hudson's Bay was built just east of the main downtown area, near Clark College.

John Keast Lord

Lordis said to have made a whaling voyage and been shipwrecked, and to have been for some years a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson's Bay fur countries.


50 Tyson

Later, he signed to Hudson Records, a label started by former NBA player Troy Hudson.

Addy, Washington

Addy was first settled in 1851 by Magnus Flett, a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) employee, after he retired to the Addy area.

Adriance Memorial Library

As of April 2012, the Adriance Memorial Library has been featured as a special building for the Hudson Valley civilization in a mod-pack in the popular strategy game Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.

Africultures

Afriphoto is a collection of books about African photographers, among which Abel Sumo Gayvolor, Isaac Hudson Bruce Vanderpuje, Ganiyu Owadi, Gerald L. Annan-Forson, Philippe Koudjina, Mamadou Konaté, Francis Nii Obodai Provençal, Paul Kabré, Germain Kiemtoré, Zaynab Toyosi Oduns, Malick Sidibé, Bill Akwa Bétoté, Omar D. and Gabriel Fasunon.

Alexander Bittelman

Following his expulsion and refusal to testify in 1961, Alexander Bittelman lived out the last two years of his life in quiet at Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Anna Holbrook

Anna Kathryn Holbrook (born April 18, 1956 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American soap opera actress, best known for her role as Sharlene Frame Hudson on Another World, a role she played originally from 1988 to 1991.

Capote

Capote (garment), an early 19th-century winter coat made with a wool blanket such as a Hudson's Bay point blanket

Charles B. Greul

His designs sold well and were mass distributed through the Hudson's Bay Company retail stores in the 1950s.

Clara Bloodgood

" She next appeared with Arnold Daly in "How He Lied to Her Husband," and a production of "The Gentleman from India," in Boston. In 1905 at the Hudson Theatre in New York she played Violet Robinson in George Bernard Shaw’s "Man and Superman," with Robert Loraine.

Daft Planet

With Ched living from a trailer park, as the son of a taxidermist and Hudson as the son of a wealthy network executive and presumably based on musician Gregg Alexander, a parallel is drawn between the two characters, offering unlikely chemistry.

Dennis Avery

Dennis T. Avery (born 1936), director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute

Eustathius of Thessalonica

(It was first printed in R. Stephens' edition of Dionysius (Paris, 1547, 4to.), and later in that of H. Stephens (Paris, 1577, 4to., and 1697, 8vo.), in Hudson's Geograph. Minor, vol.

Fairchild 24

Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Hockey player Bill Barilko and his dentist Henry Hudson disappeared on August 26, 1951, aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane, flying from Seal River, Quebec.

Frances Anne Hopkins

In 1858, she married a Hudson's Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to North America.

Harold Channer

Harold Hudson Channer is a talk-show host on public-access television cable TV network Manhattan Neighborhood Network, or MNN.

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Henry Hudson

The Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, explored earlier by Hudson, is named after him, as are Hudson County, New Jersey, the Henry Hudson Bridge, and the town of Hudson, New York.

History of papermaking in New York

From Saratoga they drove to Luzerne, at the confluence of the Hudson and Sacandaga Rivers, and learned that spruce was abundantly available in these watersheds.

Hudson Boatworks

Hudson formerly held the world best time for the men's heavyweight eight for a two thousand meter race which was 5:19.85, designed by Luis Tarrataca, set by the U.S in the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece.

Hudson Downtown Historic District

Located along the Tiffin River, Hudson served as an important trading center from 1854–1891.

Hudson Hornet

The Gran Turismo developer, Polyphony Digital is confirmed the 1954 Hudson Hornet will be rebuild on December, also will feature this car on the racing simulator "Gran Turismo 6", and the former Formula 1 world champion, Mario Andretti to talk about the early racing life story for filming the GT6 and Mario's documentary "First Love".

Jelly's Last Jam

In addition to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover as the older and younger Morton, the cast included Ken Ard, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ann Duquesnay, Tonya Pinkins, Mary Bond Davis, and Keith David.

John Barlow Hudson

Hudson has three degrees, finished in the California Institute Fine Arts, Valencia, CA in 1972 and 1972, and there is nother one institute, he learned at Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.

Julian Moreton

These hardships are recorded in Moreton's book and in Bishop Edward Feild's reports to the S.P.G. For example, one account records Moreton visiting Deadman's Bay some 30 miles away from his home, walking for 16 miles along the shore, living on bread and butter with salted fish alone, and expecting only two good meals in nine days.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Live from Albertane

# "Where's the Love" (Hanson, Hanson, Hanson, Hudson, Salover) – 4:53

Llanrumney

Notables who objected included Rumney High School Governing Body, Fields in Trust, Alun Michael MP, David Melding AM, Lorraine Barrett AM, Andrew R.T. Davies AM, Cllrs Cook, Parry, Ireland, Hudson, Morgan, Joyce and RREEL.

Major Abraham Staats

His name is given to some early place names in the Hudson Valley, such as Staats Island, Staats Point (on the Hudson), and Abram Staats Kill (Creek).

Milwaukee Road class F7

The Milwaukee Road's class F7 comprised six (#100–#105) high-speed, streamlined 4-6-4 "Baltic" or "Hudson" type steam locomotives built by ALCO in 1937–38 to haul the Milwaukee's Hiawatha express passenger trains.

Mount's Bay

Its half-moon shape is similar to that of Donegal Bay in Ireland and Cardigan Bay in Wales, although, unlike the aforementioned bays, Mount's Bay is relatively sheltered from the prevailing Atlantic westerlies.

No. 163 Squadron RAF

The squadron reformed in 10 July 1942 at Asmara, Egypt and equipped with Hudson aircraft that operated a mail and communications service to Khartoum, Sudan and other African countries.

Oliver Everett

Everett was educated at St Aubyn's Preparatory School Woodford Green Essex having been Captain of the 1st XVFelsted, the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and at Christ's CollegeCambridge, and he has a masters degree in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and did post-graduate work in international relations at the London School of Economics.

Peter Hudson

Hudson was kept goalless just three times during his senior career, by Richmond's Barry Richardson in 1969, Carlton's Rod Austin in 1977 and Bruce Greenhill of TFL club Sandy Bay in 1978.

Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

It is 130 kilometres from the capital city, St. John's, and is within easy distance of the scenic Cape Shore (including the Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve), the Irish Loop and St. Mary's Bay, Conception Bay, and the inner reaches of Placentia Bay.

Real and True

It was written by Future, Cyrus and Mr Hudson, and was produced by their frequent collaborator Mike Will Made It.

Robert Swain Gifford

He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

Sándor Jemnitz

Jemnitz: Trio for violin, viola and guitar – Benjamin Hudson (violin); Kim Kashkashian (viola); David Starobin (guitar); A Song from the East, Bridge Classics BDG 9004 (1987); David Starobin Favorite Tracks Vol.

Scott Valley

Scott Valley was first entered by Stephen Meek, Thomas McKay, George Adolphus Duzel and 16 other Hudson's Bay trappers in 1836.

Skanska

Other continuing major projects include the restoration of the World Trade Center ground zero site including the removal of debris, the reconstruction of the PATH and New York City Subway and the creation of a World Trade Center Transportation Hub, due to be completed in 2014, including the Oculus station entrance, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

The cash prize began in 1970, as a $2,500 award co-sponsored by Manulife Insurance and the Hudson's Bay Company.

Steve Vaillancourt

Shawn Jasper, R-Hudson, Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, and Rep. David B. Campbell, D-Nashua) was formed in order to compel Vaillancourt to form an acceptable apology to the House; Vaillancourt offered two unaccepted apologies, one offering never to mention any German words on the floor, until his third apology was finally accepted by the House.

Susumu Matsushita

His most famous works are the designing of the mascot Neppe of Orix Buffaloes, the Motor Toon Grand Prix, Hudson's Adventure Island series, Monkey Magic and the Maximo: Ghosts to Glory concept arts.

Table Bay

The best of them- Saldanha Bay- lacked fresh water and the only realistic alternatives- Simon's Bay and Houtbaai- were rightly inaccessible at the time and only marginally less exposed to the weather, which is notoriously bad often enough in the Cape Peninisula (see article on S.S. Maori and Seapoint).

Taza, Son of Cochise

His elder son Taza (Rock Hudson) shares his ideas, but brother Naiche (Rex Reason) yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona (Barbara Rush).

Thanadelthur

At this time, James Knight, a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, was seeking a native interpreter to help convince the Cree to allow other northern Indians to reach bay side trading posts in order to trade furs with his company.

The Newcastle Song

Hudson also wrote Girls in our Town, a more serious look at the position of young women in towns like Newcastle, which was performed by Margret RoadKnight.

Türbe

Levey, Michael; The World of Ottoman Art, 1975, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0-500-27065-1

Twelve Oaks Mall

Twelve Oaks Mall was developed by A. Alfred Taubman and was completed and opened on August 3, 1977, anchored by Hudson's, JCPenney and Sears; the mall was designed by Victor Gruen and Richard Prince.

Women's Bay

Womens Bay, Alaska, a census-designated place in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, in the United States


see also

Alexander Dallas

Alexander Grant Dallas (1816–1882), British governor of Rupert's Land and Hudson's Bay Company administrator

Archibald Norman McLeod

After the merger of the North West Company with the Hudson's Bay Company, he moved to Scotland, settling at Sunnybank, Aberdeenshire.

Battle of the Bay

Battle of Hudson's Bay, a historical naval battle in Hudson's Bay in Canada

Birds Hill, Manitoba

A large property in the area was owned by James Curtis Bird, a retired Hudson's Bay Company employee, after whom the area is named.

Colvile

SS Colvile, a Lake Winnipeg steamboat built for the Hudson's Bay Company

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

There are oil portraits of Lord Strathcona by many artists, but the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury seems to have made a number of head and shoulder portraits of him from 1898 (examples may be found at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad offices, and in the Hudson's Bay Company this has a repainted background), and the artist also presented his 1899 bust-length charcoal and crayon drawing of Strathcona to McGill University in Montreal in 1916.

Early knowledge of the Pacific Northwest

In 1744 Arthur Dobbs revived it in An Account of the Countries Adjoining Hudson's Bay.

Fort Yukon, Alaska

While the post was in Russian America, the Hudson's Bay Company continued to trade there until the American traders expelled it in 1869, following the Alaska Purchase when the Alaska Commercial Company took over the post.

George Klyne

He had 13 siblings, including Jane Klyne, wife of Archibald McDonald of the Hudson's Bay Company.

History of Olympia, Washington

At the request of the Hudson's Bay Company, French Catholic missionaries established Mission St. Joseph of Newmarket and school in the 1848 at Priest Point near the future townsite for the conversion of natives to Catholicism.

IDMS

Users included the Strategic Air Command, Ford of Canada, Ford of Europe, Jaguar Cars, Clarks Shoes UK, AXA/PPP, MAPFRE, Royal Insurance, Manulife, Hudson's Bay Company, Cleveland Clinic, Bank of Canada, General Electric, Aetna and BT in the UK.

John Edward Harriott

He climbed through the ranks of the Hudson's Bay Company to become a chief factor for the Saskatchewan District.

John McLoughlin

After resigning from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1846, McLoughlin moved his family back south to Oregon City in the Willamette Valley.

Pessamit, Quebec

The Innu and Oblate missionaries used Betsiamites, whereas Bersimis was preferred by Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield during his hydrographic surveys of the St. Lawrence and by the Hudson's Bay Company.

R. M. Ballantyne

He published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America, and for some time was employed by the publishers Messrs Constable.

Riding Mountain House

The Hudson's Bay Company established the post for the purpose of trading with the Ojibwe people led by Chief Okanase and then by Chief Keeseekoowenin.

William Christie

William J. Christie (1824-1899), Canadian politician and Hudson's Bay Company employee