Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Untold Lives Series)

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To Canadians he is one of the main players behind the founding of the British Hudson Bay Company, which helped plant the foothold of Britain in Canada. Special interests include hardy shrubs, trees, herbaceous perennials, flower bulbs, wildlife and garden design; he has authored books on all of these subjects. His most lasting venture as an Artic fur trader led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, which operates today, 350 years later, as North America's oldest corporation. i134778534 |b 3325301995617 |d ddanf |g ( |m |h 8 |x 0 |t 0 |i 0 |j 300 |k 201210 |n 02-11-2021 18:06 |o - |a 971.

Old biographies and histories cast Pierre Radisson as a swashbuckling hero, a fur-trader who cut a swath around the Great Lakes and Hudson’s Bay. The allegiance of our adventurer to one side or the other seemingly alternated from one year to the next, ultimately ending up with the British, in England, where he spent his twilight years.

As the first journalist with unfettered access to Canada’s press censor files, author Mark Bourrie tells what Canadians knew and did not know during the Second World War ― and reveals the unpleasant political realities of a war so often portrayed as a unanimous moral crusade against evil. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to the Dutch and crossed the Atlantic to Holland — thus beginning a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions. Our vision is to be the destination for compelling and entertaining audio content that inspires parents, strengthens families and brings communities together.

In spite of the fact that he loved his Mohawk parents, he escaped to back to New France where he, with his brother in law, later became a famed fur trader – trading for enough furs in one season to essentially save the nearly bankrupt New France. A fascinating, funny, at times very gruesome and violent, but nevertheless wildly entertaining story.

When they do look at that period, their message is usually about European settlers transforming the primitive continent. Still, I’m glad I read both books, and read them together, thinking about threads running through history and woven into life today.