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Title The Hudson's Bay boys / directed by Gilly Mathieson, with Donald Mearns ; narrated by Brian Cox ; produced by Gilly Mathieson
Published London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (53 minutes)
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)
In English
Subject Hudson's Bay Company -- History
SUBJECT Hudson's Bay Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00546926
Subject Inuit -- Canada -- Economic conditions
Fur trade.
Emigration and immigration.
Fur trade.
Inuit -- Economic conditions.
SUBJECT Scots -- Canada
Scotland -- Emigration and immigration
Canada -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Canada.
Scotland.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
History.
Documentary television programs.
Documentaires télévisés.
Form Streaming video
Author Mathieson, Gilly, director, producer
Mearns, Donald, speaker
Cox, Brian, 1946- narrator.
BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.