The most interesting thing about Hudson bay I think got left out. It is extremely shallow, and is basically just flooded plains. It is part of the whole flat part of North America where the prairies are, but in that area it is still flooded. Back 65 million years ago, the whole prairies system was flooded, dividing North America into 3 huge islands. All that's left of that is the Hudson bay. Because it's basically flat lands gradually getting flooded, the coasts in Ontario are extremely marshy, and basically uninhabitable, because you'd sink into the ground anywhere you go. The whole bay, looking impressively big on a map, doesn't have much water in it, because the whole thing is extremely shallow. Also the water is brackish, so it's a mixture of fresh and sea water. I've always heard of it being part of the Arctic ocean myself. It fits with the Climate of the Bay. The line of cold in Canada, determing how cold it is where, follows the Arctic coast, which includes the Hudson Bay.
Good points. I'm not surprised the bay is considered brackish given how absolutely massive the Hudson Bay drainage basin is: it takes in all of the freshwater flows from Northeastern Quebec, from almost all of Northern and Northwestern Ontario beyond the (very modest) drainage basin of the Great Lakes, and from almost all of the three Prairie provinces except for the most northern bits of Saskatchewan and Alberta, as well as most of continental Nunavut as well as bits and pieces of northern tier US states (especially Minnesota and North Dakota). At just under 3.8 million square kms (almost 1.5 million square miles), it's a drainage basin comparable in size to the Mississippi-Missouri basin (and with average freshwater discharges into Hudson's Bay that are actually quite a bit greater than those of the Mississippi) but empties into a MUCH smaller and shallower body of salt water... Those familiar with Canadian historical maps will also know it as "Rupertsland" - the area once under the supposed (British) monopoly of the "Hudson's Bay Company" named for a cousin of the previous King Charles who was one of the company's founding directors in 1670.
@@Bob-lq6dtdefinitely not but Sudbury Ontario is home to one of the biggest meteorite impact craters on earth called the “Sudbury basin impact structure” because of its age it’s not viewable from satellite anymore sadly
Hudson Bay is a very recent geographic feature with a limited future as a body of water. Up till about 14,000 yrs ago, the Laurentide ice sheet was thickest approximately over Hudson Bay, and its great weight pushed much of Northern Canada below sea level. As it melted, the land surface slowly began to rebound, and continues to this day. Given enough time, the bottom of Hudson bay will continue to emerge above sea level and the Bay would disappear completely, unless the next cycle of glaciation begins before then.
@@answerman9933 Well, if you were an explorer named Hudson, of course you would want to check out a strait with that same name. And of course, if that strait lead to Hudson Bay, you would discover that too. Its all very probable once you follow those bread crumbs.
I was always fascinated by this enormous amount of water when looking at the maps. Suprisingly no people talk about it, and your video was probably the best regarding Hudson Bay.
Military pilots who fly across, from Alaska to Goose Bay Labrador, characterize it as like flying across an ocean. Very large body of water, however, it's average depth is relatively shallow.
that's because unlike those other inland sea's he mentions, there aren't over a million people living around the Bay and using it for international trade and commerce. It is a rugged area in Canada where only some live.
I worked as a geologist in the James Bay region of Northern Ontario and have personally seen that the area around Hudson's Bay is colossal, unforgiving, very sparsely inhabited and possessive of a terrible beauty. God knows I love it, winter or summer.
I'd love to be a prospector - there are some amazing places right outside your back door anywhere in Canada. As the old saying goes "You can only find Gold where Gold has been found..."
@@keith6706 Good, I hope it is, because the same native tribes that the Cree burned were forgotten, same for the ones that the Inuit burned down. You don't care, you think you care but you don't. You only care because right now it's popular to care and you get nods of appreciation and validation for supporting this narrative. There were hundreds of tribes around the bay, many lived and died and many died in fire from other tribes, get over it, this is life, when another more powerful nation takes us over it'll start all over again. Get over yourself, they don't care that you care, they're dead.
The Hudson Bay is kinda like Canada’s Gulf of Mexico…but instead of man eating sharks it has man eating polar bears…and it’s colder than hell as opposed to the Gulf of Mexico being hotter than hell.
For a while in the late 18th and early 19th centuries the HBC faced competition from the Montreal-based North West Company, which developed new trade routes through the Great Lakes. (They eventually merged.) The new Canadian government didn't simply force the HBC out; they bought up their land. The HBC founded the Pacific port at Prince Rupert, which they named after their first patron.
One moment, the narrator said the Cree Indians have been living around the Hudson Bay for hundreds of years before Europeans. Then, the next moment, he said it was discovered by European. Just as Livingston "discovered" the Victoria Falls in Africa when he was literally carried there by the natives who lived around the area.
I was lucky to get to go to Church Hill Manitoba on the Hudson Bay when I worked at United Airlines. Changed a 767 engine there. Very interesting place and the people were very welcoming and nice.
Some history, but little about the geology and natural history and characteristics of the bay itself, or the various industries or people who still live there. Also, The Hudsons Bay Company is still one of the largest retailers in Canada, with stores in most urban centres.
@@MargaretDube-l5i I assume you're referring to the spelling of centre. The British and Canadian version of the spelling of centre pre-dates the American version by many centuries. Doesn't that make the butchered American version (center) the incorrect one...?
The geology is the flat Canadian Shield (basement rock) with little soil on top. It's surrounded by Muskeg that supports the huge mosquito population. Some mining is done in the region.
The Hudson Bay stores (known colloquially as The Bay) have plenty “of glory” left in Canada. You can still get a huge variety of goods including some very high end brands. That’s how it is in Toronto, anyway.
I wonder what the proportion Gross Product of HBC was to Canadian GDP? In its heyday of course. And I suggest the furry creatures' populations would have exploded.
Holy shit, I had no idea the modern day Hudson's Bay Company was the same company that monopolized fur trade in like half of North America... I always just assumed it was a different company that took on the name centuries later.
What I appreciate is the term Hudson Bay Start, where an expedition would gear-up and head out, only to the outskirts of town where they would set up their first camp and find out everything they forgot and still be able to run back to the store and pick it up.
HBC point blankets are amazing. Still made the same way and in the same place and to the same quality standards for the last 300 years. A typical blanket has a lifespan of about a century. I bought a six-point blanket (queen size) for $500 and it's the best investment in my sleep quality and comfort I've ever made.
So, according to this, the Cree lived around Hudson Bay for “hundreds of years” and then Hudson was the first to discover it in 1610. I’m kinda surprised that the Cree hadn’t discovered it while living around it. They must have been astonished and quite appreciative of Hudson for discovering it. I bet they learned to pay attention to their surroundings after that.
This Canadian thoroughly enjoyed this brief. Too bad it's not more detailed (including the Franklin expedition and that obvious comet crater along its eastern shore. I would also be curious to know more about it's depths.
The video could be corrected by saying that the Hudson Bay was discovered by Henry Hudson FOR Europeans for the first time in 1610. Native Americans had known about Hudson Bay for probably thousands of years already. Contemporary history always gets that wording wrong.
The first European mariners exploring Hudson Bay did not “notice furry animals” from which profit could be made. All the most merchantable furs in the region came from the boreal forested interior, not the HB littoral (which could provide skins or oils of marine mammals -seals, whales). The primary impetus for exploration was competitive: whatever European empire discovered a shortcut to East Asia via the fabled (literally) Northwest Passage would gain strategic and commercial advantage over its rival imperialists. The only European settlements on Hudson Bay were ports with fortified company stores and accommodations for employees and nautical guests. There was no existing, indigenous fur-trapping network anywhere near the coastal landscape which is bleak and treeless. Rather, all furs traded at the Bay ports came from far inland in the forested continental interior. The coast ports never settled European colonists. The city of Churchill exists only because of resources from several hundred kilometres inland-grain from the prairies-otherwise the local region on the coast is a vast, almost unpopulated, very low primary-production territory. The English and French empires fought for control of HB. Their common Norman blood was inured to cold (unlike the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish), but in fact, the French were concerned that their long-lost British cousins had indeed found a shortcut-not to the Orient via the Northwest Passage but, rather, to the fur-rich boreal forests of western North America by establishing trading posts at the HB coast and encouraging indigenous middlemen to trade far inland on the relatively flat, easily navigable river systems than extend for thousands of kilometres west to the Rocky Mountain continental divide. The French had already developed their own trade system into this area-but it was much longer, through the Great Lakes and many, many portages around the river rapids of the Canadian Shield geography, and the depots of European trade goods much farther away, in Montreal, where also resided the financiers of annual expeditions to the far west of imperial French penetration. The English HB ports were closer to the furs of this region, more attractive to indigenous trappers and conveyors alike because European wares weren’t middled as much as those from New France. The English found a shortcut to the region via HB; with less distance to protect strategically as the French had to do, the English could better afford to strategically protect commercial shipping through HB. Finally, the reason the Anglo- and Franco-Normans bothered to venture so far west into the wilderness was that furs were becoming trapped-out by French interests in the east. With two imperial interests competing in the Northwest after English trading ports were established on HB, furs would be trapped out even quicker -which was the case. Then all was quiet on HB until the modern age, the rail terminus in Manitoba, and the massive hydro-electric projects on the opposite shore, in Quebec.
The Dutch had control of the fur trade from New Amsterdam thanks to the Iroquois who controlled the water routes along the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence and the Ohio River. England and France armed their enemies to wipe out the Iroquois so the Dutch provided them with arms. That set off what is called The Beaver Wars that went on for decades as the Iroquois depopulated a huge region of rival tribes.
@@billwilson-es5yn Three things: first, the quality of furs trapped south of the Great Lakes was poor compared to those trapped north of the Great Lakes-the winters aren’t so cold south of the Lakes so fur mammals don’t grow enough to the coveted guard “hairs” which furs from northern climes do. Still the newish Dutch republic (formerly part of Imperial Spain) was eager to trade and occupy New Netherlands as quickly as possible since the French, on the north, the English, on the south-and the new Swedish claim in their midst-had relatively more potential for expansion. The main problem here for the Dutch was its relatively small population, therefore fewer potential emigrants to the New World. (And, remember, Captain Henry Hudson, an Englishman, was contracted by the Dutch to explore the Hudson River area around the future New Amsterdam. Perhaps his demise in frigid waters of Hudson Bay at the hands of mutineers might have turned out differently for his employers had he returned to Europe. As it was, both he and relations between the Netherlands and England in both New and Old World theatres were fated for conflict.) Second, the solution for the problem of inferior local furs was to divert the flow of northern furs away from the French colony in the St Lawrence Valley towards the Hudson River Valley instead. The bigger regional rivalry was always between the bigger European imperialists, the French and English. The latter, its main colonial presence being in Virginia (superior in settlement potential to colder, rockier Quebec, but poor in furs), coveted the superior trapping grounds of the French. Remember that the Iroquois confederacy which became England’s indigenous ally in this solution had barely formed (with some difficulty typical of confederacies, namely the lack of constitutional mechanism to force all confederates to cooperate when and where needed). As the the Netherlands courageously shifted as many of its own nationals and natives from its vast trading empire to New Netherlands as a bulwark against encroaching, pincer-like pressure by other Euro-imperialists, the Iroquois Confederacy had yet to complete its genocide of French-allied Hurons, c. 1634 (the whole of present-day Southwestern Ontario was depopulated for a number of generations in an attempt to block and divert the flow of furs from Quebec. It failed partly because this area is relatively warm and therefore poor fur-trapping grounds, and…), in any event, other indigenous nations simply moved trade-routes and, thus, the whole frontier of French-English conflict further north into their own traditional territory, thus assuring continuance for furs coming down to Quebec. It also took time for the Confederacy to subdue the seaboard nations (Abenaki, Malseet, Mig’ma, &c). It was compelled by economics-inferior trapping potential in its own zone -and strategy to expand far to the west into present-day Wisconsin. Although shrewd warriors and businessmen, the unwieldy Confederacy was challenged by somewhat the same problem as the Dutch: small populations compared with England and France which ultimately swamped both the Confederacy and the New Netherlands colony. The Iroquois never “controlled” the St Lawrence Valley (furs were coming down from the Ottawa and other northern rivers anyway), rather, such nations of the Confederacy that felt so-inclined staged attacks that were more spoiling actions than occupation of the region. Iroquois interests naturally waxed and waned in a variety of directions in such a vast, inland “empire”. In the end, it was the Confederacy’s value as a proxy English force far inland, rather than its potential to supply furs that underwrote the arming of the Confederacy. Of course its fullest force wasn’t deployed until New Netherlands was overwhelmed by English forces and to which it capitulated in 1665; at this point in time the Confederacy was struggling with its own internal political, economic, and strategic problems and happily sided with whichever colonial power paid it the most-and that turned out to be the English with whom the Confederacy played a big part in the inevitable “French and Indian Wars” in which the French and their indigenous allies could not sustain their depredations on the massive influx of English settlers round abouts the newly-named New England. And, of course, beaver are easy to trap and were therefore trapped out quite quickly -only animal quicker was sea otter Third and finally, not only was the prospect of lucrative fur trading relatively poor for New Netherlands compared with the English and French (as mentioned, the English establishment and strategic protection of Crown-chartered trading posts on Hudson Bay had at last put them on an even fur-trade footing with the French in relatively virgin trapping territory in the Northwest), not only was Dutch superiority in naval warfare and marine trade neutralized by brute numbers arrayed against them -England and the Netherlands conducted three, mainly naval wars during the 17th century), the Dutch were also preoccupied with their global trading empire and ultimately settled the war with the English for the doomed New Netherlands by negotiating neutrality with respect the Netherland’s claims on certain Caribbean islands and Surinam (“Dutch Guiana”) in South America. Conceding New Netherlands (henceforth, “New England) was doubtless disappointing to the Dutch but, in the big picture, it profited immensely by focusing on its Indian Ocean spice trade, organized by republican joint-stock companies which got the jump on rival kingdoms reluctant to licence such independent orgs-and made out very well indeed. By incorporating administrative lessons learned from its former masters, the Spanish Empire, and financial lessons learned from Jewish financiers who enjoyed and flocked to persecution-free Amsterdam (much the same way Jews previously took refuge in the republic of Venice when they were being persecuted almost everywhere else in Europe’s royal, Roman Catholic domains), along with the Dutch’s seafaring and shipbuilding prowess, it’s trading empire lasted-very lucratively for another three centuries. In sum, the Dutch position in New Netherlands was fated to be worth abandoning for better prospects elsewhere. The Iroquois Confederacy became overextended while profiting from quasi-trading and de facto military alliance with the English (and, eventually, the British, once the Scottish and English Crowns were united-which, BTW, reminds of the European rush and intense one-upmanship on the Atlantic seaboard which included bit-players like Scotland, with its crown colony in Cape Breton Island, in present-day Nova Scotia, and Sweden with its own, equally short-lived colony near New Netherlands. Weight counts and the only weight the Dutch had to counter those of its European rivals was not in numbers but, rather, in their expertise at seafaring, trade and finance. New Netherlands just wasn’t worth the agro.
It's Hudson's Bay Company, not Hudson Bay Company, though the bay is Hudson Bay. The Cree were the main tribe westward of Hudson Bay, and controlled interior trading early in the HBC's life, but there were numerous other tribes involved in trading - usually the Cree serving as middlemen; something they attempted to control - natives were also business minded and drove hard bargains. It's difficult to tell because of the snow, but I think that's a baby elk you are showing, not a moose. You say nothing of the formation of Hudson Bay. Was it a meteor crater? How deep is it? Next time, make your video five minutes long. LOL.
Interesting, in our reserve, Hudson’s bay charged a bit too much for a simple gun back in the earlier days. over 50-60 beaver pelts piled up wouldn’t even get a single gun. So I wouldn’t blame them for trying to negotiate LOL. But over the years, when currency (money) began to matter in northern Ontario, Hudson’s bay eventually started crediting the trappers with money, often written a certain amount on paper, rather than having beaver pelts as a payment option. Despite the great changes, unfortunately in the earlier/late 90’s, Hudson’s bay’s (Northern) era came to an end in Big Trout Lake Ontario, after a slight disagreement between the community store manager and the Hudson’s bay company manager. All over a sign advertising our community store lol. However, the decision to kick HBC out of our reserve has definitely improved our little economy as a reserve and it’s definitely something that has made big trout lake the way it is today. -Trayvon
It is not presently believed to have been formed by a meteor impact, (that would be some meteor), but by glaciers depressing the surface and leaving behind massive amounts of meltwater.
@@nickd3871I think it must've been a meteor impact. At Churchill I came across some very glassy, plasticish looking rock along some south of Churchill shore line. Though not a geologist it seemed to me such rock had to be a consequence of high heat and pressure melting.
@@googlesucks662 The creation of the bay has *my* interest. I would not be surprised at it being the consequence of *2* meteor strikes: 1 for the much larger main body, a second for the way too circular area at the bottom East part.
You would think that but actually, no. Geologists now generally believe the arc resulted from a continental collision-a 2-billion-year-old mountain-building episode called the Trans-Hudson orogeny. As ancient continents collided, the crust buckled and fractured into slices that could thrust past each other to accommodate the compression.
I thought I was in a remote area until a buddy of mine told me of his first job in the fifties: running a Hudson's Bay company store so remote you had to fly in only, everything. The buildings also hadn't been updated for a century!! Sold guns, ammo, gas, and ski0-doos to the natives who brought in the furs.
Wikipedia has good articles about Hudson Bay and the Canadian Shield that explains why the bay is there. The Canadian Shield is basement rock that's 2 to 4.5 billion years old that's been scraped bare by glaciers. Hudson Bay appears to have been a depression between two ancient mountain ranges that became filled with sedimentary rock that's 8,200 feet thick today. The surrounding basement rock are the roots of the ancient mountain ranges those rose up from deep underground as those
Interesting how it looks like it was at one time associated with the lower great lakes , just a thought. Still interesting, and yes Hudson sea sounds appropriate. 👍
HBayCo also held the monopoly on distributing/ wholesaling of tobacco and alcoholic products back in the day... Geologists have discovered that at one time places like the Grand Canyon flowed north to the Bay then out into the Labrador Sea. They discovered certain unique marine fossils in the sediments found along the length of ancient river routes.
As a Canadian the Hudson Bay is as familiar a shape as my own province, but I know so little about it. Probably cause there isn’t much to know. An explorer and the fur trade, that’s like half the history of Canada More and more the bay, that weird upside-down-animal-looking sea is calling to me
Look up the Rothschild and Hudson Bay fur trade In canada It says alot Also tells Ya how it was the Rothschilds who ordered mass genocide of the Indigenous people of north america to allow for vast transportation of the vast natural resources of the continent I live in Canada so I no there's lots of info out there on Hudson Bay and what happened through out the years. The 1980s they taught us so much on this subject where I went to school in Canada. I assume they do not teach these things in school too much today.
The Hudson's Bay Company in Edmonton still accepted raw furs as recently as 1990. If you showed up with a fresh beaver pelt, they would buy it from you.
I remember when I was a kid. I was in a movie theater watching a news reel, black and white, of course, ( that was what we had before U-Tube ) . It was about the closing of the last Hudsons' Bay trading post ( where they bought pelts from trappers ). Dad nudged me and said this was historic. Gosh I'm old.
Unmentioned in the video is any mention of the Belcher Islands and the almost perfectly circular SE coast of Hudson’s Bay. The theory is that the circle is the crater of an old meteor strike, and the islands near the Center of the circle, which are very high in Iron, are possibly the remnants of the meteor itself.
It's a big box store that has upper middle class brands for clothes, cosmetics and carries a decent range of household appliances, decorations and implements that can be found in most large shopping malls in both Quebec and the ROC.
Fort Prince of Wales is there, right acrost the river from Churchill. When you fly over it in a helicopter, you can see the whales in the river below and there are lots of them.
Beaver? Yup. Squirrel? Yup. Otter? Yup. Moose? Nope. I'm pretty sure that fourth animal is an elk calf, not a moose. Fyi; the southern, lower leg of Hudson Bay is actually called James Bay and not normally included as part of Hudson Bay. Cheers from Alberta, Canada.
I was obsessed with studying maps and studying the world globe when I was in all three types of school I would always stare at the Hudson Bay and think oh my god this looks so fucking cold. Like ice cold
Is this the same Hudson, that sailed up to Hudson River? If so, he’s done a lot of sailing on dead-end rivers, and dead-end days. I’m surprised there wasn’t a mutiny earlier.
@@robynsnest8668 of course I know Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River. I grew up 10 miles from the Hudson River, but I didn’t know Henry Hudson sailed to the Hudson Bay, which is like 3,000 miles away (by boat) and frozen over most of the year. So that was with my question was: Was the Hudson Bay name after Henry Hudson.
just south of Christina lake bc , is a town south of the boarder of Canada/US on the Columbia river, its name is Hudsons bay, I believe prior to the war of 1812 they had a fort at the mouth of the Columbia on the pacific,
I've been to the shores of Hudson Bay in the hamlet/town of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. In November. Minus 45 degrees. Pretty much the only way you should have this truly Canadian experience.
Remember not ALL of the water/bay you see is the Hudson Bay...the tip at the south is actually James Bay, for which the huge mega hydro dams in Quebec are collectively named for.
It is Hudson Bay--the body of water, and Hudson's Bay Company. Note that the company name includes a possessive apostrophe; the body of water does not.
There has been talk of the possibility of closing off the open, northern gaps of the Hudson's bay with a long barrier, closing off the bay from the ocean. This would eventually allow the capture of the fresh water that now flows into the bay to be confined to the newly formed, shallow lake. Over a period of time this could be a salvation for a water starved North America. But the construction of that barrier is currently beyond our technology. And the loss of fresh water to the Arctic ocean and the North Atlantic would not only effect the natural habitat of untold creatures, but the Gulf Stream would undoubtedly be altered from the lack of the salt/fresh water effects on deep ocean currents. This would have unknown effects on climate change, but probably would lower the average temperatures in Europe due to the loss of the warm Gulf Stream continuing across the Atlantic. Just a dream today, but maybe possible in our far future. Or a nightmare.
Good and all though I'm much more interested in it's geological formation. Being smack-dab in the middle of the North American craton was the bay formed by the overwhelming weight of the great ice sheet? Did it exist far longer than the ice sheet? Most of what I've read about the near-perfect arc at the south-eastern shore suggests it is not an impact crater so could we please have an animation how how the land eventually formed in to what it is today?
Wikipedia has good articles about Hudson Bay and the Canadian Shield it's part of. The shield is ancient basement rock (2 to 4.5 billion years old) that's been scraped bare by glaciers and erosion. Hudson Bay is above rock formations that didn't get bulldozed out by glaciers.
Another interesting fact about Hudson’s Bay is the lowest point of gravity on earth is located on the western side. So, if you want to lose a few pounds on the scale, go up to that location! Stay safe, stay sane,stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
It may seem like nitpicking but saying that the indigenous peoples lived around Hudson’s bay for “hundreds of years” when in fact it is countless thousands has a taint of colonialism. I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way but nevertheless you should know. Thanks.
the SE semicircle shoreline is part of an asteroid crater. proof is the islands formed by the typical 'peak' of material that shoots up with these hard impacts on a fluid target material which crust is at this scale. when did it hit? an enormous punch.
Not that it matters much in the context of your video, but the picture you use of a “Moose” is actually an elk. (Yes, I understand the confusion caused by faulty translations and subsequent linguistic messiness of the German word “Elch” and the English word “elk”. But a good video
@@TheDraeg Further research has revealed that its the oldest company in the English speaking world. Wiki says the oldest company in the world is the Japanese construction company Kongō Gumi, founded in 578 C.E. Berretta is the oldest firearms company. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to increase my knowledge.
Why did you not say anything about the formation of the bay ? Its depth ? Many have thought that it might be super-ancient meteor crater, but that is no longer believed to be true. The current explanation is that it is a depression caused by millions of years of ice pressing down on the "plastic" surface of the earth -- if I understand correctly. No mention of such an important question. Why ?
There was a documentary on Hudson Bay years ago. It focused heavily on glacial rebound as having much to do with it's present size and continuing formation. There was film of a progression of old beach levels with new ones being formed an ongoing process. The same process is happening on the Great Lakes. The lakes originally drained through the Chicago area and may be slowly returning it's original drainage, barring another ice age.
maybe you need to publish a three-minute video on a big topic. Try that without leaving "important" facts out that the internet nitpickers will then so strongly find fault with.
@@martian9999 the problem is the video title "the Hudson Bay EXPLAINED". One expects an explanation of why it's there but instead the video is about the human history in the bay.
Since the Cree and Inuits lived around the Hudson Bay long before any Europeans saw it, you probably don't want to say that the Hudson Bay was "first discovered" in 1610. I think the people who first lived there must have "first discovered" it.
Again, it wasn’t discovered by Henry Hudson, because it was always there. The indigenous people already knew about it. So Henry Hudson was just late on the scene, as an English visitor.
Stating that the Cree Indians inhabited the area of the Hudson Bay for centuries before the arrival of Europeans, and in the next sentence stating that the bay was "first" discovered by Henry Hudson (who was not Cree) is contradictory. The Cree had to discover it before being able to inhabit it.
My great Uncle left the US and worked in Churchhill. He was a hunter and trapper and railroad worker. One day, I hope to visit his grave. Vernon Clark was his name.
About 50 years i flew my Citabria (100 hp 2 person plane) from Moosenee to Churchill and back following the shoreline. Altitude from a few feet to thousands. I didnt see any sign of habitation at all ,no roads ,buildings, anything. Beautiful country and looking at a map of Canada there is far more unpopulated land to the north.
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As a French Canadian who has been to the shores of the Hudson Bay, I can confirm it is full of water.
🤔 interesting
As a Native American living by the Hudson Bay, I can confirm his account of it being full of water
I think you are both conspiring to mislead people.
As a fellow Canadian, I can also confirm that, the Hudson bay is full of water.
As an American whose never seen the Hudson Bay, I shall ignore all of your evidence and call you wrong. Good day!
The most interesting thing about Hudson bay I think got left out. It is extremely shallow, and is basically just flooded plains. It is part of the whole flat part of North America where the prairies are, but in that area it is still flooded. Back 65 million years ago, the whole prairies system was flooded, dividing North America into 3 huge islands. All that's left of that is the Hudson bay. Because it's basically flat lands gradually getting flooded, the coasts in Ontario are extremely marshy, and basically uninhabitable, because you'd sink into the ground anywhere you go.
The whole bay, looking impressively big on a map, doesn't have much water in it, because the whole thing is extremely shallow. Also the water is brackish, so it's a mixture of fresh and sea water.
I've always heard of it being part of the Arctic ocean myself. It fits with the Climate of the Bay. The line of cold in Canada, determing how cold it is where, follows the Arctic coast, which includes the Hudson Bay.
Good points. I'm not surprised the bay is considered brackish given how absolutely massive the Hudson Bay drainage basin is: it takes in all of the freshwater flows from Northeastern Quebec, from almost all of Northern and Northwestern Ontario beyond the (very modest) drainage basin of the Great Lakes, and from almost all of the three Prairie provinces except for the most northern bits of Saskatchewan and Alberta, as well as most of continental Nunavut as well as bits and pieces of northern tier US states (especially Minnesota and North Dakota). At just under 3.8 million square kms (almost 1.5 million square miles), it's a drainage basin comparable in size to the Mississippi-Missouri basin (and with average freshwater discharges into Hudson's Bay that are actually quite a bit greater than those of the Mississippi) but empties into a MUCH smaller and shallower body of salt water...
Those familiar with Canadian historical maps will also know it as "Rupertsland" - the area once under the supposed (British) monopoly of the "Hudson's Bay Company" named for a cousin of the previous King Charles who was one of the company's founding directors in 1670.
@@Bob-lq6dtdefinitely not but Sudbury Ontario is home to one of the biggest meteorite impact craters on earth called the “Sudbury basin impact structure” because of its age it’s not viewable from satellite anymore sadly
Hudson Bay is a very recent geographic feature with a limited future as a body of water. Up till about 14,000 yrs ago, the Laurentide ice sheet was thickest approximately over Hudson Bay, and its great weight pushed much of Northern Canada below sea level. As it melted, the land surface slowly began to rebound, and continues to this day. Given enough time, the bottom of Hudson bay will continue to emerge above sea level and the Bay would disappear completely, unless the next cycle of glaciation begins before then.
Hmm. I don't consider "an average depth of 330'" shallow.
@@Summerslake it is pretty shallow though.
its amazing how Hudson just so happen to discover the Hudson bay!
Moreover, he arrived at the Hudson Bay through a strait named Hudson as well. What are the odds?
Pretty sure it was never ever lost therefore it was t discovered but rather renamed
@@answerman9933 Well, if you were an explorer named Hudson, of course you would want to check out a strait with that same name. And of course, if that strait lead to Hudson Bay, you would discover that too. Its all very probable once you follow those bread crumbs.
Same as Lou Gehrig who contracted and died of Lou Gehrig's disease.
@thePronto 😂 😂 stop it
I was always fascinated by this enormous amount of water when looking at the maps. Suprisingly no people talk about it, and your video was probably the best regarding Hudson Bay.
Military pilots who fly across, from Alaska to Goose Bay Labrador, characterize it as like flying across an ocean. Very large body of water, however, it's average depth is relatively shallow.
Interesting video. Thank you.
that's because unlike those other inland sea's he mentions, there aren't over a million people living around the Bay and using it for international trade and commerce. It is a rugged area in Canada where only some live.
Hudson Bay helps keep Canada cool in the summer.
@@maximilliancunningham6091 Lake Superior is deeper than Hudson Bay, in both average depth and maximum depth.
It should be called The Hudson Sea.
How about the Hudson Gulf?
@@Blaqjaqshellaq The Gulf of Hudson has a nice ring to it
The Hudson Queef
I think it's bigger than the Mediterranean sea.
Let's just call it Bob😊
I worked as a geologist in the James Bay region of Northern Ontario and have personally seen that the area around Hudson's Bay is colossal, unforgiving, very sparsely inhabited and possessive of a terrible beauty. God knows I love it, winter or summer.
I'd love to be a prospector - there are some amazing places right outside your back door anywhere in Canada. As the old saying goes "You can only find Gold where Gold has been found..."
So much of Canada is untapped.
@@donaldclifford5763 Well, that simply isn't true. The mosquitoes will love tapping into your blood stream.
@DCM8828 Now tell us about all the biting insects. 😰
The Inuit would like to point out the Cree were not the only people living around the bay.
And? No one cares.
@@lordrevan571I do
@@lordrevan571 Your dismissal of an entire culture and people is noted.
@@keith6706 Good, I hope it is, because the same native tribes that the Cree burned were forgotten, same for the ones that the Inuit burned down. You don't care, you think you care but you don't. You only care because right now it's popular to care and you get nods of appreciation and validation for supporting this narrative.
There were hundreds of tribes around the bay, many lived and died and many died in fire from other tribes, get over it, this is life, when another more powerful nation takes us over it'll start all over again. Get over yourself, they don't care that you care, they're dead.
@lordrevan571 Dude don't even attempt your pathetic try at Our Histories..
Suspect you just another squatter kicked our of its homelands
The Hudson Bay is kinda like Canada’s Gulf of Mexico…but instead of man eating sharks it has man eating polar bears…and it’s colder than hell as opposed to the Gulf of Mexico being hotter than hell.
Is colder than Greek hell? (Greek hell is cold and wet)
And not nearly as many tourists.
No oil rigs either. @@donaldclifford5763
I'm sure it can be pleasant there in Summer. Beat the heat.
Youforgot the bugs...@@donaldclifford5763
For a while in the late 18th and early 19th centuries the HBC faced competition from the Montreal-based North West Company, which developed new trade routes through the Great Lakes. (They eventually merged.)
The new Canadian government didn't simply force the HBC out; they bought up their land.
The HBC founded the Pacific port at Prince Rupert, which they named after their first patron.
The HBC was also ready to sell since the fashion for beaver hair hats have waned,
HBC even went to war with NWC in what became known as the Pemmican War (1812-21).
The HBC eliminated the natives and animals in the Oregon Territory so didn't care when American settlers started showing up.
The North West Company is still around. It trades on the TSX.
Notably prior to Hudson's discovery of the bay that bears his name, Hudson discovered and named the Hudson River in present day New York State.
The Gulf of Canada
That would be the Gulf of St. Lawrence, also part of Quebec.
@@ScubaSteveCanada
It's ok.
We can have Gulf of Canada 1 and Gulf of Canada 2.
One moment, the narrator said the Cree Indians have been living around the Hudson Bay for hundreds of years before Europeans. Then, the next moment, he said it was discovered by European. Just as Livingston "discovered" the Victoria Falls in Africa when he was literally carried there by the natives who lived around the area.
I was lucky to get to go to Church Hill Manitoba on the Hudson Bay when I worked at United Airlines. Changed a 767 engine there. Very interesting place and the people were very welcoming and nice.
You can still take a train there, I've been eyeballin' that trip for a while
@@herzogsbuick
I didn’t know it was served by rail. That would be a fun trip.
Some history, but little about the geology and natural history and characteristics of the bay itself, or the various industries or people who still live there.
Also, The Hudsons Bay Company is still one of the largest retailers in Canada, with stores in most urban centres.
They had less than three minutes
@@conradnelson5283 Why did they limit themselves to 3 minutes?
Can't help myself...do some research yourself and watch your spelling
apostrophes. Have a good one! Diane
@@MargaretDube-l5i I assume you're referring to the spelling of centre. The British and Canadian version of the spelling of centre pre-dates the American version by many centuries. Doesn't that make the butchered American version (center) the incorrect one...?
The geology is the flat Canadian Shield (basement rock) with little soil on top. It's surrounded by Muskeg that supports the huge mosquito population. Some mining is done in the region.
The Hudson Bay stores (known colloquially as The Bay) have plenty “of glory” left in Canada. You can still get a huge variety of goods including some very high end brands. That’s how it is in Toronto, anyway.
Same here. It's good quality stuff if you don't mind spending a little extra.
Most of the stores are decrepit, even the old flagship in montreal
@@weatheranddarkness like I said, in Toronto, they’re far from that.
I wonder what the proportion Gross Product of HBC was to Canadian GDP? In its heyday of course. And I suggest the furry creatures' populations would have exploded.
Just bought a shirt there.
Holy shit, I had no idea the modern day Hudson's Bay Company was the same company that monopolized fur trade in like half of North America... I always just assumed it was a different company that took on the name centuries later.
What I appreciate is the term Hudson Bay Start, where an expedition would gear-up and head out, only to the outskirts of town where they would set up their first camp and find out everything they forgot and still be able to run back to the store and pick it up.
You must've missed school that day... 🙂
@@davidreeves8266 I didn't go to school :(
@@BigBrainBrian Gonna be remembering that trick for next time I go camping lmao
Well known here in Canada.
Definitely deserve more views!
I’m telling you man🙏🏾
HBC point blankets are amazing. Still made the same way and in the same place and to the same quality standards for the last 300 years. A typical blanket has a lifespan of about a century. I bought a six-point blanket (queen size) for $500 and it's the best investment in my sleep quality and comfort I've ever made.
Is it soft or scratchy wool?
So, according to this, the Cree lived around Hudson Bay for “hundreds of years” and then Hudson was the first to discover it in 1610. I’m kinda surprised that the Cree hadn’t discovered it while living around it. They must have been astonished and quite appreciative of Hudson for discovering it. I bet they learned to pay attention to their surroundings after that.
Interesting. But I was expecting at least part on the geology of the bay and how it formed.
Crazy how the company that owned a substantial chunk of Canada's land is now a department store
more into tech real estate and some retail. their dept store days are pretty much over, their flagship store at yonge/bloor gone!
Crazy they're a country owned by a queen from another one
@@gcburns4about the queen....
@@gcburns4By a king*
@@EuroGuy85what? They’re one of the largest in Canada
I once took a canoe from Minnesota to Hudson Bay. Greatest adventure of my life.
Rainy river, Lake of the Woods, Winnipeg River, Lake Winnipeg, Nelson River, Hudson Bay
I enjoyed the video a lot! Leaving comment for algorithm
Much appreciated :)
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, later English Sealord, was actually born as Prinz Ruprecht of Pfalz, (a German part of the "Holy Roman-German Empire").
Wasn't he a Cavalier ? Fought against the Rounders ?
This Canadian thoroughly enjoyed this brief. Too bad it's not more detailed (including the Franklin expedition and that obvious comet crater along its eastern shore. I would also be curious to know more about it's depths.
Awesome video
The video could be corrected by saying that the Hudson Bay was discovered by Henry Hudson FOR Europeans for the first time in 1610. Native Americans had known about Hudson Bay for probably thousands of years already. Contemporary history always gets that wording wrong.
The first European mariners exploring Hudson Bay did not “notice furry animals” from which profit could be made. All the most merchantable furs in the region came from the boreal forested interior, not the HB littoral (which could provide skins or oils of marine mammals -seals, whales). The primary impetus for exploration was competitive: whatever European empire discovered a shortcut to East Asia via the fabled (literally) Northwest Passage would gain strategic and commercial advantage over its rival imperialists.
The only European settlements on Hudson Bay were ports with fortified company stores and accommodations for employees and nautical guests. There was no existing, indigenous fur-trapping network anywhere near the coastal landscape which is bleak and treeless. Rather, all furs traded at the Bay ports came from far inland in the forested continental interior. The coast ports never settled European colonists. The city of Churchill exists only because of resources from several hundred kilometres inland-grain from the prairies-otherwise the local region on the coast is a vast, almost unpopulated, very low primary-production territory.
The English and French empires fought for control of HB. Their common Norman blood was inured to cold (unlike the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish), but in fact, the French were concerned that their long-lost British cousins had indeed found a shortcut-not to the Orient via the Northwest Passage but, rather, to the fur-rich boreal forests of western North America by establishing trading posts at the HB coast and encouraging indigenous middlemen to trade far inland on the relatively flat, easily navigable river systems than extend for thousands of kilometres west to the Rocky Mountain continental divide.
The French had already developed their own trade system into this area-but it was much longer, through the Great Lakes and many, many portages around the river rapids of the Canadian Shield geography, and the depots of European trade goods much farther away, in Montreal, where also resided the financiers of annual expeditions to the far west of imperial French penetration. The English HB ports were closer to the furs of this region, more attractive to indigenous trappers and conveyors alike because European wares weren’t middled as much as those from New France. The English found a shortcut to the region via HB; with less distance to protect strategically as the French had to do, the English could better afford to strategically protect commercial shipping through HB.
Finally, the reason the Anglo- and Franco-Normans bothered to venture so far west into the wilderness was that furs were becoming trapped-out by French interests in the east. With two imperial interests competing in the Northwest after English trading ports were established on HB, furs would be trapped out even quicker -which was the case. Then all was quiet on HB until the modern age, the rail terminus in Manitoba, and the massive hydro-electric projects on the opposite shore, in Quebec.
The Dutch had control of the fur trade from New Amsterdam thanks to the Iroquois who controlled the water routes along the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence and the Ohio River. England and France armed their enemies to wipe out the Iroquois so the Dutch provided them with arms. That set off what is called The Beaver Wars that went on for decades as the Iroquois depopulated a huge region of rival tribes.
@@billwilson-es5yn Three things: first, the quality of furs trapped south of the Great Lakes was poor compared to those trapped north of the Great Lakes-the winters aren’t so cold south of the Lakes so fur mammals don’t grow enough to the coveted guard “hairs” which furs from northern climes do. Still the newish Dutch republic (formerly part of Imperial Spain) was eager to trade and occupy New Netherlands as quickly as possible since the French, on the north, the English, on the south-and the new Swedish claim in their midst-had relatively more potential for expansion. The main problem here for the Dutch was its relatively small population, therefore fewer potential emigrants to the New World. (And, remember, Captain Henry Hudson, an Englishman, was contracted by the Dutch to explore the Hudson River area around the future New Amsterdam. Perhaps his demise in frigid waters of Hudson Bay at the hands of mutineers might have turned out differently for his employers had he returned to Europe. As it was, both he and relations between the Netherlands and England in both New and Old World theatres were fated for conflict.)
Second, the solution for the problem of inferior local furs was to divert the flow of northern furs away from the French colony in the St Lawrence Valley towards the Hudson River Valley instead. The bigger regional rivalry was always between the bigger European imperialists, the French and English. The latter, its main colonial presence being in Virginia (superior in settlement potential to colder, rockier Quebec, but poor in furs), coveted the superior trapping grounds of the French. Remember that the Iroquois confederacy which became England’s indigenous ally in this solution had barely formed (with some difficulty typical of confederacies, namely the lack of constitutional mechanism to force all confederates to cooperate when and where needed). As the the Netherlands courageously shifted as many of its own nationals and natives from its vast trading empire to New Netherlands as a bulwark against encroaching, pincer-like pressure by other Euro-imperialists, the Iroquois Confederacy had yet to complete its genocide of French-allied Hurons, c. 1634 (the whole of present-day Southwestern Ontario was depopulated for a number of generations in an attempt to block and divert the flow of furs from Quebec. It failed partly because this area is relatively warm and therefore poor fur-trapping grounds, and…), in any event, other indigenous nations simply moved trade-routes and, thus, the whole frontier of French-English conflict further north into their own traditional territory, thus assuring continuance for furs coming down to Quebec. It also took time for the Confederacy to subdue the seaboard nations (Abenaki, Malseet, Mig’ma, &c). It was compelled by economics-inferior trapping potential in its own zone -and strategy to expand far to the west into present-day Wisconsin. Although shrewd warriors and businessmen, the unwieldy Confederacy was challenged by somewhat the same problem as the Dutch: small populations compared with England and France which ultimately swamped both the Confederacy and the New Netherlands colony. The Iroquois never “controlled” the St Lawrence Valley (furs were coming down from the Ottawa and other northern rivers anyway), rather, such nations of the Confederacy that felt so-inclined staged attacks that were more spoiling actions than occupation of the region. Iroquois interests naturally waxed and waned in a variety of directions in such a vast, inland “empire”. In the end, it was the Confederacy’s value as a proxy English force far inland, rather than its potential to supply furs that underwrote the arming of the Confederacy. Of course its fullest force wasn’t deployed until New Netherlands was overwhelmed by English forces and to which it capitulated in 1665; at this point in time the Confederacy was struggling with its own internal political, economic, and strategic problems and happily sided with whichever colonial power paid it the most-and that turned out to be the English with whom the Confederacy played a big part in the inevitable “French and Indian Wars” in which the French and their indigenous allies could not sustain their depredations on the massive influx of English settlers round abouts the newly-named New England. And, of course, beaver are easy to trap and were therefore trapped out quite quickly -only animal quicker was sea otter
Third and finally, not only was the prospect of lucrative fur trading relatively poor for New Netherlands compared with the English and French (as mentioned, the English establishment and strategic protection of Crown-chartered trading posts on Hudson Bay had at last put them on an even fur-trade footing with the French in relatively virgin trapping territory in the Northwest), not only was Dutch superiority in naval warfare and marine trade neutralized by brute numbers arrayed against them -England and the Netherlands conducted three, mainly naval wars during the 17th century), the Dutch were also preoccupied with their global trading empire and ultimately settled the war with the English for the doomed New Netherlands by negotiating neutrality with respect the Netherland’s claims on certain Caribbean islands and Surinam (“Dutch Guiana”) in South America. Conceding New Netherlands (henceforth, “New England) was doubtless disappointing to the Dutch but, in the big picture, it profited immensely by focusing on its Indian Ocean spice trade, organized by republican joint-stock companies which got the jump on rival kingdoms reluctant to licence such independent orgs-and made out very well indeed. By incorporating administrative lessons learned from its former masters, the Spanish Empire, and financial lessons learned from Jewish financiers who enjoyed and flocked to persecution-free Amsterdam (much the same way Jews previously took refuge in the republic of Venice when they were being persecuted almost everywhere else in Europe’s royal, Roman Catholic domains), along with the Dutch’s seafaring and shipbuilding prowess, it’s trading empire lasted-very lucratively for another three centuries.
In sum, the Dutch position in New Netherlands was fated to be worth abandoning for better prospects elsewhere. The Iroquois Confederacy became overextended while profiting from quasi-trading and de facto military alliance with the English (and, eventually, the British, once the Scottish and English Crowns were united-which, BTW, reminds of the European rush and intense one-upmanship on the Atlantic seaboard which included bit-players like Scotland, with its crown colony in Cape Breton Island, in present-day Nova Scotia, and Sweden with its own, equally short-lived colony near New Netherlands. Weight counts and the only weight the Dutch had to counter those of its European rivals was not in numbers but, rather, in their expertise at seafaring, trade and finance. New Netherlands just wasn’t worth the agro.
It's Hudson's Bay Company, not Hudson Bay Company, though the bay is Hudson Bay. The Cree were the main tribe westward of Hudson Bay, and controlled interior trading early in the HBC's life, but there were numerous other tribes involved in trading - usually the Cree serving as middlemen; something they attempted to control - natives were also business minded and drove hard bargains. It's difficult to tell because of the snow, but I think that's a baby elk you are showing, not a moose. You say nothing of the formation of Hudson Bay. Was it a meteor crater? How deep is it? Next time, make your video five minutes long. LOL.
Interesting, in our reserve, Hudson’s bay charged a bit too much for a simple gun back in the earlier days. over 50-60 beaver pelts piled up wouldn’t even get a single gun. So I wouldn’t blame them for trying to negotiate LOL.
But over the years, when currency (money) began to matter in northern Ontario, Hudson’s bay eventually started crediting the trappers with money, often written a certain amount on paper, rather than having beaver pelts as a payment option. Despite the great changes, unfortunately in the earlier/late 90’s, Hudson’s bay’s (Northern) era came to an end in Big Trout Lake Ontario, after a slight disagreement between the community store manager and the Hudson’s bay company manager. All over a sign advertising our community store lol.
However, the decision to kick HBC out of our reserve has definitely improved our little economy as a reserve and it’s definitely something that has made big trout lake the way it is today. -Trayvon
It is not presently believed to have been formed by a meteor impact, (that would be some meteor), but by glaciers depressing the surface and leaving behind massive amounts of meltwater.
It used to be called Hudson’s Bay. Cartographers changed, the company did not.
@@nickd3871I think it must've been a meteor impact. At Churchill I came across some very glassy, plasticish looking rock along some south of Churchill shore line. Though not a geologist it seemed to me such rock had to be a consequence of high heat and pressure melting.
@@googlesucks662 The creation of the bay has *my* interest. I would not be surprised at it being the consequence of *2* meteor strikes: 1 for the much larger main body, a second for the way too circular area at the bottom East part.
What's the explanation for the curved section on the Quebec side? Looks a lot like part of a meteor crater formation.
Hudson way was formed due to melting of glacier around that region during the last ice age .
You would think that but actually, no. Geologists now generally believe the arc resulted from a continental collision-a 2-billion-year-old mountain-building episode called the Trans-Hudson orogeny. As ancient continents collided, the crust buckled and fractured into slices that could thrust past each other to accommodate the compression.
It is not only Cree, but also Inuit who live around this body of water.
Fun fact:the entire hudson bay and islands on it (every single one.) belong to nunavut!
James Bay is the smaller bay south of Hudson's bay.
I thought I was in a remote area until a buddy of mine told me of his first job in the fifties: running a Hudson's Bay company store so remote you had to fly in only, everything. The buildings also hadn't been updated for a century!! Sold guns, ammo, gas, and ski0-doos to the natives who brought in the furs.
Very well done. Thanks
Another short description of Hudson Bay is the film REVENANT
Excellent summary 👍
Please do a second video addressing the geology of the bay’s formation and its interesting geometry.
Wikipedia has good articles about Hudson Bay and the Canadian Shield that explains why the bay is there. The Canadian Shield is basement rock that's 2 to 4.5 billion years old that's been scraped bare by glaciers. Hudson Bay appears to have been a depression between two ancient mountain ranges that became filled with sedimentary rock that's 8,200 feet thick today. The surrounding basement rock are the roots of the ancient mountain ranges those rose up from deep underground as those
Interesting how it looks like it was at one time associated with the lower great lakes , just a thought. Still interesting, and yes Hudson sea sounds appropriate. 👍
HBayCo also held the monopoly on distributing/ wholesaling of tobacco and alcoholic products back in the day... Geologists have discovered that at one time places like the Grand Canyon flowed north to the Bay then out into the Labrador Sea. They discovered certain unique marine fossils in the sediments found along the length of ancient river routes.
As a Canadian the Hudson Bay is as familiar a shape as my own province, but I know so little about it.
Probably cause there isn’t much to know. An explorer and the fur trade, that’s like half the history of Canada
More and more the bay, that weird upside-down-animal-looking sea is calling to me
I just hope the Canadian coast guard patrol it well to prevent foreign fishing trawlers from reaping the stocks ?
Thinking that's half the history of Canada is literally ignorant to say but a little funny as far as understatement go
Look up the Rothschild and Hudson Bay fur trade In canada
It says alot
Also tells Ya how it was the Rothschilds who ordered mass genocide of the Indigenous people of north america to allow for vast transportation of the vast natural resources of the continent
I live in Canada so I no there's lots of info out there on Hudson Bay and what happened through out the years.
The 1980s they taught us so much on this subject where I went to school in Canada.
I assume they do not teach these things in school too much today.
The Hudson's Bay Company in Edmonton still accepted raw furs as recently as 1990. If you showed up with a fresh beaver pelt, they would buy it from you.
The Hudson bay is one of the few locations where there is less gravity than the rest of the earth. If you want to grow taller, move there.
Lose weight?
I remember when I was a kid. I was in a movie theater watching a news reel, black and white, of course, ( that was what we had before U-Tube ) . It was about the closing of the last Hudsons' Bay trading post ( where they bought pelts from trappers ). Dad nudged me and said this was historic. Gosh I'm old.
Nice explanation
I'm not sure if that is a moose.
I am very sure it is not.
Yhea, at 2:01, says moose, shows picture of deer or elk.
Fascinating series
Unmentioned in the video is any mention of the Belcher Islands and the almost perfectly circular SE coast of Hudson’s Bay. The theory is that the circle is the crater of an old meteor strike, and the islands near the Center of the circle, which are very high in Iron, are possibly the remnants of the meteor itself.
Nastapoka arc!!!!! It’s amazing how many people I ask if they know it and they don’t.
As a Canadian I find it crazy that you can't get to Hudson Bay by road in Ontario and Manitoba.
You can do it from Québec side but in harsh dirt roads bring xtra gas no pumps on the way to reach the lower end of it near James bay
Only in Manitoba by road, not Ontario!
It's a big box store that has upper middle class brands for clothes, cosmetics and carries a decent range of household appliances, decorations and implements that can be found in most large shopping malls in both Quebec and the ROC.
Canada’s indigenous warriors were in Hudson Bay for 5,000+ years.
It’s name is Cree Bay 🇨🇦
The comments section has more and better facts about the aforementioned bay than the video did......bravo commenters, bravo
hmm, I was hoping you would say something about the polar bears and Ft. Churchill (which is no longer a "fort") - I lived there as a kid
Fort Prince of Wales is there, right acrost the river from Churchill. When you fly over it in a helicopter, you can see the whales in the river below and there are lots of them.
Beaver? Yup. Squirrel? Yup. Otter? Yup. Moose? Nope. I'm pretty sure that fourth animal is an elk calf, not a moose. Fyi; the southern, lower leg of Hudson Bay is actually called James Bay and not normally included as part of Hudson Bay. Cheers from Alberta, Canada.
I was going to make that same comment. 👍
100%!
Nice, thanks!
I like the map you showed. We don’t appreciate how big the bay is compared to other similar bodies of water
You included James bay as part of Hudson's bay. The lower section is seperate
I was obsessed with studying maps and studying the world globe when I was in all three types of school I would always stare at the Hudson Bay and think oh my god this looks so fucking cold. Like ice cold
Is this the same Hudson, that sailed up to Hudson River? If so, he’s done a lot of sailing on dead-end rivers, and dead-end days. I’m surprised there wasn’t a mutiny earlier.
Actually, it is the same guy the river is named after. He sailed up it in 1609.
@@robynsnest8668 of course I know Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River. I grew up 10 miles from the Hudson River, but I didn’t know Henry Hudson sailed to the Hudson Bay, which is like 3,000 miles away (by boat) and frozen over most of the year.
So that was with my question was:
Was the Hudson Bay name after Henry Hudson.
just south of Christina lake bc , is a town south of the boarder of Canada/US on the Columbia river, its name is Hudsons bay, I believe prior to the war of 1812 they had a fort at the mouth of the Columbia on the pacific,
Nice work, thanks eh!
As an airline pilot I can confirm it has a lot of water and sometimes ice
I've been to the shores of Hudson Bay in the hamlet/town of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. In November. Minus 45 degrees. Pretty much the only way you should have this truly Canadian experience.
Remember not ALL of the water/bay you see is the Hudson Bay...the tip at the south is actually James Bay, for which the huge mega hydro dams in Quebec are collectively named for.
I live in Manitoba and the Hudson Bay is pog.
It is Hudson Bay--the body of water, and Hudson's Bay Company. Note that the company name includes a possessive apostrophe; the body of water does not.
Excellence in RUclips.
It’s a shame what Europeans did to North America
There has been talk of the possibility of closing off the open, northern gaps of the Hudson's bay with a long barrier, closing off the bay from the ocean.
This would eventually allow the capture of the fresh water that now flows into the bay to be confined to the newly formed, shallow lake. Over a period of time this could be a salvation for a water starved North America.
But the construction of that barrier is currently beyond our technology.
And the loss of fresh water to the Arctic ocean and the North Atlantic would not only effect the natural habitat of untold creatures, but the Gulf Stream would undoubtedly be altered from the lack of the salt/fresh water effects on deep ocean currents. This would have unknown effects on climate change, but probably would lower the average temperatures in Europe due to the loss of the warm Gulf Stream continuing across the Atlantic.
Just a dream today, but maybe possible in our far future. Or a nightmare.
Good and all though I'm much more interested in it's geological formation. Being smack-dab in the middle of the North American craton was the bay formed by the overwhelming weight of the great ice sheet? Did it exist far longer than the ice sheet? Most of what I've read about the near-perfect arc at the south-eastern shore suggests it is not an impact crater so could we please have an animation how how the land eventually formed in to what it is today?
Wikipedia has good articles about Hudson Bay and the Canadian Shield it's part of. The shield is ancient basement rock (2 to 4.5 billion years old) that's been scraped bare by glaciers and erosion. Hudson Bay is above rock formations that didn't get bulldozed out by glaciers.
You missed one Hudson’s Bay is yet another impact structure.
Why is it there, and why is the gravity so low? How deep is it? How fresh is the water?
Laurentide ice sheet?
I swam in it Churchill,Manitoba 2017 😂😂😂
Another interesting fact about Hudson’s Bay is the lowest point of gravity on earth is located on the western side.
So, if you want to lose a few pounds on the scale, go up to that location!
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What have Ukraine nazis have to do with Hudson Bay?😂😂😂
Interesting , Hudson Bay store origin.
No mention of how Hudson's Bay came to be formed geologically. Disappointing.
It may seem like nitpicking but saying that the indigenous peoples lived around Hudson’s bay for “hundreds of years” when in fact it is countless thousands has a taint of colonialism. I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way but nevertheless you should know. Thanks.
0:57 Just a small correction. Thousands of years, not hundreds 😁
the SE semicircle shoreline is part of an asteroid crater. proof is the islands formed by the typical 'peak' of material that shoots up with these hard impacts on a fluid target material which crust is at this scale. when did it hit? an enormous punch.
Geologists haven't found any evidence of meteor impacts in Hudson Bay.
Hudson Bay looks like God took a bite of Canada, realized it wasn't what he wanted, setting it down and moving on.
My only nitpick is we’re in the 21st-century 2024 that was the 17th century 1610. Lmk what 100 I’m adding and from where?
Not that it matters much in the context of your video, but the picture you use of a “Moose” is actually an elk. (Yes, I understand the confusion caused by faulty translations and subsequent linguistic messiness of the German word “Elch” and the English word “elk”.
But a good video
HBC is the oldest continually operating company in the world.
It's actually Beretta- by a couple hundred years
@@TheDraeg Further research has revealed that its the oldest company in the English speaking world. Wiki says the oldest company in the world is the Japanese construction company Kongō Gumi, founded in 578 C.E. Berretta is the oldest firearms company. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to increase my knowledge.
Why did you not say anything about the formation of the bay ? Its depth ? Many have thought that it might be super-ancient meteor crater, but that is no longer believed to be true. The current explanation is that it is a depression caused by millions of years of ice pressing down on the "plastic" surface of the earth -- if I understand correctly. No mention of such an important question. Why ?
There was a documentary on Hudson Bay years ago. It focused heavily on glacial rebound as having much to do with it's present size and continuing formation. There was film of a progression of old beach levels with new ones being formed an ongoing process.
The same process is happening on the Great Lakes. The lakes originally drained through the Chicago area and may be slowly returning it's original drainage, barring another ice age.
That was exactly what i was looking for when i saw the title of the video-how and why it formed. Thanks for the info.
maybe you need to publish a three-minute video on a big topic. Try that without leaving "important" facts out that the internet nitpickers will then so strongly find fault with.
@@martian9999 the problem is the video title "the Hudson Bay EXPLAINED". One expects an explanation of why it's there but instead the video is about the human history in the bay.
Simply put.... 3 minutes.
The Florida-shaped part is called James Bay. Along the shores of James Bay are various and sundry bays and coves. Some were named, some not.
Since the Cree and Inuits lived around the Hudson Bay long before any Europeans saw it, you probably don't want to say that the Hudson Bay was "first discovered" in 1610. I think the people who first lived there must have "first discovered" it.
Interesting use of "Hard Times". I keep hearing that tune on random videos.
If Henry Hudson was looking for a route to China, he REALLY took a wrong turn, then!
If he had kept going he would have found the NW passage. It's just that ice is very unforgiving.
@@donaldclifford5763 Not if he kept going south into Hudson Bay. The Northwest Passage is well north of that bay.
I’m sorry (and I mean absolutely no hate by this) but the way he says Hudson is so funny to me, it’s like a “hUT’sson”. I like it :)
On the map why is Canada written so small and the US in larger font? We are talking about Canada after all.
From Toronto: Hudson Bay stores still kick a**. Think Macy’s
Again, it wasn’t discovered by Henry Hudson, because it was always there. The indigenous people already knew about it. So Henry Hudson was just late on the scene, as an English visitor.
Stating that the Cree Indians inhabited the area of the Hudson Bay for centuries before the arrival of Europeans, and in the next sentence stating that the bay was "first" discovered by Henry Hudson (who was not Cree) is contradictory. The Cree had to discover it before being able to inhabit it.
My great Uncle left the US and worked in Churchhill. He was a hunter and trapper and railroad worker. One day, I hope to visit his grave. Vernon Clark was his name.
About 50 years i flew my Citabria (100 hp 2 person plane) from Moosenee to Churchill and back following the shoreline. Altitude from a few feet to thousands. I didnt see any sign of habitation at all ,no roads ,buildings, anything. Beautiful country and looking at a map of Canada there is far more unpopulated land to the north.
I have always wonder what the half circle is, on the south eastern side of the Hudson Bay.