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The Hudson's Bay boys / directed by Gilly Mathieson, with Donald Mearns ; narrated by Brian Cox ; produced by Gilly Mathieson.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hudson's Bay Company--History.
- Hudson's Bay Company.
- Inuit--Canada--Economic conditions.
- Inuit.
- Fur trade.
- Scots--Canada.
- Scots.
- Scotland--Emigration and immigration.
- Scotland.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- From the 1960s to 1980s, a generation of young men left depressed Scotland to journey to the frozen extremes of the Canadian Arctic to take up work with the Hudson's Bay Company. Sent to remote outposts, their job was to trade goods for fur with the Inuit, but these young men took on far wider responsibilities: pulling teeth, administering penicillin and even delivering babies. When the fur trade collapsed, instead of coming back to Scotland, many of the Scots stayed in the Arctic, married the natives and set about rebuilding the Inuit communities broken by the dying fur trade. Now, the last of the 'Bay Boys' have come together for a hunting trip reunion in order to tell their incredible story.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 12, 2021).
- OCLC:
- 1268148795
- Publisher Number:
- ASP5125427/marc
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