The Labrador Peninsula 



to China brought to the coast of Labrador 

 Martin Frobisher in 1577, John Davis in 1586, 

 Weymouth in 1602, and finally, in 1610, Henry 

 Hudson, who discovered the great bay called 

 after him. 



In 1603 Champlain established Quebec, and 

 shortly afterward the Jesuit missionaries began 

 their labors among the Indians, traveling 

 through the northern interior from camp to 

 camp, and incidentally gaining a knowledge of 

 the country. The hardy couriers des bois. 

 or French trappers, also soon overran the 

 northern wilds, where they acquired the habits 

 of the natives, and usually took to themselves 

 wives from among the Indian friends. Much 

 of the knowledge gained from these sources 

 was, incorporated in Delisle's map of 1703 

 which shows the principal lakes and rivers, 

 especially of the southern and eastern water- 

 sheds of the peninsula, in marked contrast to 

 the lack of detail found in English maps of 

 the same period used in the delineation of the 

 boundaries between the territories of England 

 and France as laid down by the Treaty of 

 Utrecht in 1713. 



The Hudson Bay Company was formed in 

 1669, and within a few years had several posts 



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