Eighteenth-century naturalists of Hudson Bay / Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary Houston.

Montreal ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

xviii, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

The European connection -- Alexander Light -- James Isham -- Humphrey Marten -- Andrew Graham -- Thomas Hutchins -- Moses Norton -- Samuel Hearne -- Peter Fidler -- Natural history -- Climatology -- In striking contrast: Charleston -- Appendices -- Sailing ships to York factory, 1716-1827 -- Provenance of Hudson's Bay Company journals / Deidre A. Simmons -- The ten HBC manuscripts of Graham and Hutchins / Stuart and Mary Houston -- Ten-year cycles / Stuart Houston -- How the HBC swan quill and swan skin trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan / Stuart Houston, Mary Houston, and Henry M. Reeves -- How the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada / Stuart Houston -- Cree names for natural history species / Stuart Houston, Mary Houston, and Arok Wolvengrey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.