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Publisher: Hudson's Bay Company, Winnipeg
Publication Date: 1978
62 pages - ISSN 0005-7517

Cover: The mountains behind Arctic Bay on north Baffin island. Water-color by Frederick H. Varley painted in the summer of 1938.

The Beaver was launched in October 1920 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Hudson's Bay Company, which sponsored and managed the magazine until it was transferred to the history society in 1994.  Decades of devoting almost all of its content to the history of the fur trade, the Arctic and Canada's northwest frontier.

Contents
Donald A. Smith and Governor George Simpson * Moonias's Honeymoon * Lord Selkirk's Highland Regiment and the Kildonan Settlers * The Restoration of Lord Selkirk's Grave * The Tree-Line * Oolachen Time in Bella Coola * The Agawa Bay Outpost, Lake Superior * 'A Wearer of Moccasins': The Honourable James McKay of Deer Lodge * Varley and Shortt: Their Voyage on the Nascopie in 1938 * Northern Books.

This has it's original subscription order form. Very good to excellent condition with only slightly bumped corners and staple binding. The upper right corner tip shows a hard bump. Inside very clean and I see no writing. Beautiful issue.

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