Henry Hudson: Cree History and Ancient Maps

By Leslie Trager

The book relates, for the first time, Cree history as they encountered Hudson during his exploration of Hudson Bay, including the Cree witness to the mutiny and the rescue of Hudson and his remaining men by the Cree. The book also shows the pre-Hudson knowledge of Hudson Bay by examining 16th century maps and Hudson's knowledge of them. The author shows that these maps existed before Hudson arrived in Hudson Bay and show Hudson Bay as it existed about 3-4,000 years ago. The author estimates that these maps were surveyed at least 3000 years ago and were probably repeatedly copied over this period through the 15th and early 16th century. Finally, the author shows that Hudson was not really looking for the Northwest passage to China, but for valuable metals and that his search was probably based on these early maps.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Aug 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483576619

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HENRY HUDSON: CREE HISTORY AND ANCIENT MAPS.

By: Leslie Trager

Published July, 2016.

Copyright July, 2016

ISBN: 978-1-4835766-1-9

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FORWARD

I. WHY DID HUDSON SAIL TO HUDSON BAY.

II. THE ANCIENT MAPS OF HUDSON BAY.

III. LOCATING HUDSON’S WINTER CAMP.

IV. THE CREES WITNESS THE MUTINY AND SAVE HUDSON.

V. WAS HUDSON WAITING FOR RESCUE.

END NOTES

MAPS.

1. Craven Map of Hudson Bay showing Hudson’s Route.

2. Nancy Globe 1534.

3. Sebastian Munster Map 1540.

4. Abraham Ortelius Map 1570.

5. De Jode Polar Projection 1593.

6. Petrius Plantius 1594

7. Hudson Bay with contour line at 6 meters.

8. Samuel de Champlain Map 1632.

9. Lower James Bay with contour line at 110 meters.

10. Northwest Corner of James Bay with contour line at 122 Meters.

11. Hessel Gerritsz Map 1612.

12. Map showing location of Hudson’s Camp during winter 1610-1611.

13. Map of Lower James Bay.

14. Google Map of Hudson Camp area.

15. Picture of Hudson Camp area.

FORWARD.

This short booklet was written so that the public could know about new information concerning Henry Hudson’s final voyage, particularly the likelihood that Hudson had ancient maps of Hudson Bay which existed long before he discovered it. The Cree oral history sheds a lot of light on Hudson’s travels within Hudson Bay and gives us an eye witness account of the mutiny.

The Cree oral history was collected by Ron Craven when he was a pilot for the Canadian government flying material to various remote locations in this area. I met Ron through our membership in the Explorers Club. Both of us were