HBC History Foundation - The Country of Adventurers: Dr. John Rae narrated by Les Stroud 

HBC turns 350 years old TODAY

Helluva a book, Bush Runner. Raw and unfiltered.

"Inuit" and "people" is redundant.

Actually, John Rae and company dragged a boat overland many times on their expeditions. It wasn't a lifeboat, it was a boat for crossing open water. Fatal Passage is a definitive book about Rae's journeys well worth reading.

@@petergardiner4585 BOOYA! Mike!

We are again stereotyped, with the great hero being one of the colonizers, as usual.

His surname was Rae, not Rea.

@@MrSimonmcc the name Rae has many spellings including Rea and Rhea

+Michael MacNeil Try here facebook.com/John-Rae-Society-677799352296159/ and here www.johnraesociety.com/ for starters. There is a book list at www.johnraesociety.com/projects/book-list.

+However, I believe Rae tended to use dogs rather than manhauling the sledges.

You could always join the In John Rae's Company facebook group facebook.com/groups/387665864656628/

Thank you

His diary is a book now

Most of your point is very valid. But, in this case, it is technically correct to say Rae discovered the last missing link of the Northwest Passage. The idea of a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific though the Arctic was a European idea, important only to Europeans. No single indigenous group knew the whole way from Atlantic to Pacific, not because they couldn't -- no one knew the land better -- but because the notion of an Atlantic to Pacific trade route wasn't important to them. Interestingly, Rae of all people, was very respectful of indigenous people, which was not at all common at that time.

Totally proud of our European explorers.