The Beaver, Magazine of the North, Spring 1956, Outfit 286 - Governor George Simpson / The Caribou Crisis

Canada: Hudson's Bay Company. Good. 1956. First Edition. Paperback. 58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: The Caribou Crisis - informative article in the state of the caribou; The Narwhal - Canada's Horn of the Uniforn; The Living Stone - photos of stone carvings of the Eskimos of the Eastern Arctic; Pierre Falcon - Bard of the Prairies; Governor George Simpson - "The Strangest Man I Ever Knew"; Samuel Black on the Finlay; Winston Churchill accepts appointment of Grand Seigneur of the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay; Ninety Years Later - a tale of hard northern travel in the old style, exploring the wild Upper Finlay, 90 years after Samuel Black - great photo-illustrated article; Retreat of the Sea - photos taken in the neighbourhood of Fort Severn; The Minnesota Route - in the late 1850s the Hudson's Bay Company began to abandon the historic York Factory route to Lake Winnipeg in favour of that via St. Paul and the Red River; Sir George Simpson as Banker; Nice colour ad for Hudson's bay shirts for men on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Beaver, Magazine of the North, Spring 1956, Outfit 286 - Governor George Simpson Caribou Crisis - informative article in the state of the caribou; The Narwhal - Canada's Horn of the Uniforn; The Living Stone - photos of stone carvings of the Eskimos .