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Continuing onward in our itinerary, the Hudson's Bay Company Gallery of the Manitoba Museum .

I say, continuing.... as I present the latest addition to the Hudson's Bay Company Gallery, taking up the interior second floor of the two period buildings along the pier of the next door Nonsuch Gallery.

After looking around the tableau of Hudson's Bay House, you take the elevator up to that second floor, into this Nautical Balcony to explore more of HBC’s nautical history alongside artifacts and specimens connected to HBC’s role in scientific collecting.

On the right-hand side is a chart detailing the Hudson's Bay Company's fleet of ships over the centuries and a display case showing scale models of some of those ships... and an actual ship's bell!

On the left-hand side are display cases of various goods sold by the Company in its forts and then its stores.

And did you know the Hudson's Bay Company had fur trading posts in Russian Siberia? The Company had opened several of them there in 1921, to ship trade goods from Canada and Alaska. Known as the Kamchatka Venture, it lasted only two years, and yet the HBC museum collection contains a surprising number of artifacts from that brief time in the Company's history.

Displayed here is a samovar , typically found throughout Russia and Siberia, this particular one made by Ivan Konstantinov around 1921.

Notable iDevice11 pic taken during a return visit to said Museum one Saturday (1/20/2024).

PHOTO © 2024 DAA [aka me!]

Description

Continuing onward in our itinerary, the Hudson's Bay Company Gallery of the Manitoba Museum .

I say, continuing.... as I present the latest addition to the Hudson's Bay Company Gallery, taking up the interior second floor of the two period buildings along the pier of the next door Nonsuch Gallery.

After looking around the tableau of Hudson's Bay House, you take the elevator up to that second floor, into this Nautical Balcony to explore more of HBC’s nautical history alongside artifacts and specimens connected to HBC’s role in scientific collecting.

On the right-hand side is a chart detailing the Hudson's Bay Company's fleet of ships over the centuries and a display case showing scale models of some of those ships... and an actual ship's bell!

On the left-hand side are display cases of various goods sold by the Company in its forts and then its stores.

And did you know the Hudson's Bay Company had fur trading posts in Russian Siberia? The Company had opened several of them there in 1921, to ship trade goods from Canada and Alaska. Known as the Kamchatka Venture, it lasted only two years, and yet the HBC museum collection contains a surprising number of artifacts from that brief time in the Company's history.

Displayed here is a samovar , typically found throughout Russia and Siberia, this particular one made by Ivan Konstantinov around 1921.

Notable iDevice11 pic taken during a return visit to said Museum one Saturday (1/20/2024).

PHOTO © 2024 DAA [aka me!]