Hudson Bay & Hudson Strait

York Factory, Churchill and the Strait

Hudson Bay · Canada

Hudson Bay was the Hudson's Bay Company's route to the interior for two and a half centuries, reached through the ice of Hudson Strait.

Ice crushed and stranded supply ships from the seventeenth century onward, and the Strait remains among the most hazardous seasonal passages in North America.

Records in These Waters

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Cam Owen

AH-WR-1410

Cape Churchill, Manitoba

1886 · Brigantine

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Jeannie

AH-WR-1260

Wager Bay, Hudson Bay

1910 · Auxiliary Schooner

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Kitty

AH-WR-1257

Hudson Strait, near Cape Resolution

1859 · Barque

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Prince Arthur

AH-WR-1258

Mansel Island, Hudson Bay

1864 · Sailing Supply Ship

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RMS Nascopie

AH-WR-1253

Cape Dorset, Nunavut

1947 · Supply Steamer

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SS Bayeskimo

AH-WR-1254

Hudson Strait, near Ungava Bay

1925 · Cargo Steamer

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SS Ithaka

AH-WR-1256

Bird Cove, near Churchill, Manitoba

1960 · Lake Freighter · 0 ft deep