The Hudson Bay Explained in under 3 Minutes 

🤔 interesting

As a Native American living by the Hudson Bay, I can confirm his account of it being full of water

I think you are both conspiring to mislead people.

As a fellow Canadian, I can also confirm that, the Hudson bay is full of water.

As an American whose never seen the Hudson Bay, I shall ignore all of your evidence and call you wrong. Good day!

Good points. I'm not surprised the bay is considered brackish given how absolutely massive the Hudson Bay drainage basin is: it takes in all of the freshwater flows from Northeastern Quebec, from almost all of Northern and Northwestern Ontario beyond the (very modest) drainage basin of the Great Lakes, and from almost all of the three Prairie provinces except for the most northern bits of Saskatchewan and Alberta, as well as most of continental Nunavut as well as bits and pieces of northern tier US states (especially Minnesota and North Dakota). At just under 3.8 million square kms (almost 1.5 million square miles), it's a drainage basin comparable in size to the Mississippi-Missouri basin (and with average freshwater discharges into Hudson's Bay that are actually quite a bit greater than those of the Mississippi) but empties into a MUCH smaller and shallower body of salt water... Those familiar with Canadian historical maps will also know it as "Rupertsland" - the area once under the supposed (British) monopoly of the "Hudson's Bay Company" named for a cousin of the previous King Charles who was one of the company's founding directors in 1670.

@@Bob-lq6dtdefinitely not but Sudbury Ontario is home to one of the biggest meteorite impact craters on earth called the “Sudbury basin impact structure” because of its age it’s not viewable from satellite anymore sadly

Hudson Bay is a very recent geographic feature with a limited future as a body of water. Up till about 14,000 yrs ago, the Laurentide ice sheet was thickest approximately over Hudson Bay, and its great weight pushed much of Northern Canada below sea level. As it melted, the land surface slowly began to rebound, and continues to this day. Given enough time, the bottom of Hudson bay will continue to emerge above sea level and the Bay would disappear completely, unless the next cycle of glaciation begins before then.

Hmm. I don't consider "an average depth of 330'" shallow.

@@Summerslake it is pretty shallow though.

Moreover, he arrived at the Hudson Bay through a strait named Hudson as well. What are the odds?

Pretty sure it was never ever lost therefore it was t discovered but rather renamed

Hudson was a pretty common native name: e.g. Hudson River in NY.

@@answerman9933 Well, if you were an explorer named Hudson, of course you would want to check out a strait with that same name. And of course, if that strait lead to Hudson Bay, you would discover that too. Its all very probable once you follow those bread crumbs.

Same as Lou Gehrig who contracted and died of Lou Gehrig's disease.

That would be the Gulf of St. Lawrence, also part of Quebec.

​@@StephenShawCanada It's ok. We can have Gulf of Canada 1 and Gulf of Canada 2.

How about the Hudson Gulf?

@@Blaqjaqshellaq The Gulf of Hudson has a nice ring to it

The Hudson Queef

I think it's bigger than the Mediterranean sea.

Let's just call it Bob😊

Military pilots who fly across, from Alaska to Goose Bay Labrador, characterize it as like flying across an ocean. Very large body of water, however, it's average depth is relatively shallow.

Interesting video. Thank you.

that's because unlike those other inland sea's he mentions, there aren't over a million people living around the Bay and using it for international trade and commerce. It is a rugged area in Canada where only some live.

Hudson Bay helps keep Canada cool in the summer.

@@maximilliancunningham6091 Lake Superior is deeper than Hudson Bay, in both average depth and maximum depth.

And? No one cares.

​@@lordrevan571I do

@@lordrevan571 Your dismissal of an entire culture and people is noted.

@@keith6706 Good, I hope it is, because the same native tribes that the Cree burned were forgotten, same for the ones that the Inuit burned down. You don't care, you think you care but you don't. You only care because right now it's popular to care and you get nods of appreciation and validation for supporting this narrative. There were hundreds of tribes around the bay, many lived and died and many died in fire from other tribes, get over it, this is life, when another more powerful nation takes us over it'll start all over again. Get over yourself, they don't care that you care, they're dead.

​@lordrevan571 Dude don't even attempt your pathetic try at Our Histories.. Suspect you just another squatter kicked our of its homelands

I'd love to be a prospector - there are some amazing places right outside your back door anywhere in Canada. As the old saying goes "You can only find Gold where Gold has been found..."

So much of Canada is untapped.

@@donaldclifford5763 Well, that simply isn't true. The mosquitoes will love tapping into your blood stream.

@DCM8828 Now tell us about all the biting insects. 😰

The HBC was also ready to sell since the fashion for beaver hair hats have waned,

HBC even went to war with NWC in what became known as the Pemmican War (1812-21).

The HBC eliminated the natives and animals in the Oregon Territory so didn't care when American settlers started showing up.

Same here. It's good quality stuff if you don't mind spending a little extra.

Most of the stores are decrepit, even the old flagship in montreal

@@weatheranddarkness like I said, in Toronto, they’re far from that.

I wonder what the proportion Gross Product of HBC was to Canadian GDP? In its heyday of course. And I suggest the furry creatures' populations would have exploded.

Just bought a shirt there.

You can still take a train there, I've been eyeballin' that trip for a while

@@herzogsbuick I didn’t know it was served by rail. That would be a fun trip.

They had less than three minutes

@@conradnelson5283 Why did they limit themselves to 3 minutes?

Can't help myself...do some research yourself and watch your spelling apostrophes. Have a good one! Diane

@@user-pp8nf8oe7k I assume you're referring to the spelling of centre. The British and Canadian version of the spelling of centre pre-dates the American version by many centuries. Doesn't that make the butchered American version (center) the incorrect one...?

The geology is the flat Canadian Shield (basement rock) with little soil on top. It's surrounded by Muskeg that supports the huge mosquito population. Some mining is done in the region.

Is colder than Greek hell? (Greek hell is cold and wet)

And not nearly as many tourists.

No oil rigs either. @@donaldclifford5763

I'm sure it can be pleasant there in Summer. Beat the heat.

Youforgot the bugs...@@donaldclifford5763

Is it soft or scratchy wool?

What I appreciate is the term Hudson Bay Start, where an expedition would gear-up and head out, only to the outskirts of town where they would set up their first camp and find out everything they forgot and still be able to run back to the store and pick it up.

You must've missed school that day... 🙂

@@davidreeves8266 I didn't go to school :(

@@BigBrainBrian Gonna be remembering that trick for next time I go camping lmao

Well known here in Canada.

Wasn't he a Cavalier ? Fought against the Rounders ?

more into tech real estate and some retail. their dept store days are pretty much over, their flagship store at yonge/bloor gone!

Crazy they're a country owned by a queen from another one

​@@gcburns4about the queen....

​@@gcburns4By a king*

@@EuroGuy85what? They’re one of the largest in Canada

I’m telling you man🙏🏾

You would think that but actually, no. Geologists now generally believe the arc resulted from a continental collision-a 2-billion-year-old mountain-building episode called the Trans-Hudson orogeny. As ancient continents collided, the crust buckled and fractured into slices that could thrust past each other to accommodate the compression.

Much appreciated :)

Atrocity of a global dominance in fur trade. Comparative possibly to the East India Company's global dominance in opium.

Fort Prince of Wales is there, right acrost the river from Churchill. When you fly over it in a helicopter, you can see the whales in the river below and there are lots of them.

Rainy river, Lake of the Woods, Winnipeg River, Lake Winnipeg, Nelson River, Hudson Bay

I just hope the Canadian coast guard patrol it well to prevent foreign fishing trawlers from reaping the stocks ?

Thinking that's half the history of Canada is literally ignorant to say but a little funny as far as understatement go

Look up the Rothschild and Hudson Bay fur trade In canada It says alot Also tells Ya how it was the Rothschilds who ordered mass genocide of the Indigenous people of north america to allow for vast transportation of the vast natural resources of the continent I live in Canada so I no there's lots of info out there on Hudson Bay and what happened through out the years. The 1980s they taught us so much on this subject where I went to school in Canada. I assume they do not teach these things in school too much today.

Interesting, in our reserve, Hudson’s bay charged a bit too much for a simple gun back in the earlier days. over 50-60 beaver pelts piled up wouldn’t even get a single gun. So I wouldn’t blame them for trying to negotiate LOL. But over the years, when currency (money) began to matter in northern Ontario, Hudson’s bay eventually started crediting the trappers with money, often written a certain amount on paper, rather than having beaver pelts as a payment option. Despite the great changes, unfortunately in the earlier/late 90’s, Hudson’s bay’s (Northern) era came to an end in Big Trout Lake Ontario, after a slight disagreement between the community store manager and the Hudson’s bay company manager. All over a sign advertising our community store lol. However, the decision to kick HBC out of our reserve has definitely improved our little economy as a reserve and it’s definitely something that has made big trout lake the way it is today. -Trayvon

It is not presently believed to have been formed by a meteor impact, (that would be some meteor), but by glaciers depressing the surface and leaving behind massive amounts of meltwater.

It used to be called Hudson’s Bay. Cartographers changed, the company did not.

​​@@nickd3871I think it must've been a meteor impact. At Churchill I came across some very glassy, plasticish looking rock along some south of Churchill shore line. Though not a geologist it seemed to me such rock had to be a consequence of high heat and pressure melting.

@@googlesucks662 The creation of the bay has *my* interest. I would not be surprised at it being the consequence of *2* meteor strikes: 1 for the much larger main body, a second for the way too circular area at the bottom East part.

I am very sure it is not.

Wikipedia has good articles about Hudson Bay and the Canadian Shield it's part of. The shield is ancient basement rock (2 to 4.5 billion years old) that's been scraped bare by glaciers and erosion. Hudson Bay is above rock formations that didn't get bulldozed out by glaciers.

Actually, it is the same guy the river is named after. He sailed up it in 1609.

@@robynsnest8668 of course I know Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River. I grew up 10 miles from the Hudson River, but I didn’t know Henry Hudson sailed to the Hudson Bay, which is like 3,000 miles away (by boat) and frozen over most of the year. So that was with my question was: Was the Hudson Bay name after Henry Hudson.

Lose weight?

You can do it from Québec side but in harsh dirt roads bring xtra gas no pumps on the way to reach the lower end of it near James bay

Only in Manitoba by road, not Ontario!

The Dutch had control of the fur trade from New Amsterdam thanks to the Iroquois who controlled the water routes along the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence and the Ohio River. England and France armed their enemies to wipe out the Iroquois so the Dutch provided them with arms. That set off what is called The Beaver Wars that went on for decades as the Iroquois depopulated a huge region of rival tribes.

@@billwilson-es5yn Three things: first, the quality of furs trapped south of the Great Lakes was poor compared to those trapped north of the Great Lakes-the winters aren’t so cold south of the Lakes so fur mammals don’t grow enough to the coveted guard “hairs” which furs from northern climes do. Still the newish Dutch republic (formerly part of Imperial Spain) was eager to trade and occupy New Netherlands as quickly as possible since the French, on the north, the English, on the south-and the new Swedish claim in their midst-had relatively more potential for expansion. The main problem here for the Dutch was its relatively small population, therefore fewer potential emigrants to the New World. (And, remember, Captain Henry Hudson, an Englishman, was contracted by the Dutch to explore the Hudson River area around the future New Amsterdam. Perhaps his demise in frigid waters of Hudson Bay at the hands of mutineers might have turned out differently for his employers had he returned to Europe. As it was, both he and relations between the Netherlands and England in both New and Old World theatres were fated for conflict.) Second, the solution for the problem of inferior local furs was to divert the flow of northern furs away from the French colony in the St Lawrence Valley towards the Hudson River Valley instead. The bigger regional rivalry was always between the bigger European imperialists, the French and English. The latter, its main colonial presence being in Virginia (superior in settlement potential to colder, rockier Quebec, but poor in furs), coveted the superior trapping grounds of the French. Remember that the Iroquois confederacy which became England’s indigenous ally in this solution had barely formed (with some difficulty typical of confederacies, namely the lack of constitutional mechanism to force all confederates to cooperate when and where needed). As the the Netherlands courageously shifted as many of its own nationals and natives from its vast trading empire to New Netherlands as a bulwark against encroaching, pincer-like pressure by other Euro-imperialists, the Iroquois Confederacy had yet to complete its genocide of French-allied Hurons, c. 1634 (the whole of present-day Southwestern Ontario was depopulated for a number of generations in an attempt to block and divert the flow of furs from Quebec. It failed partly because this area is relatively warm and therefore poor fur-trapping grounds, and…), in any event, other indigenous nations simply moved trade-routes and, thus, the whole frontier of French-English conflict further north into their own traditional territory, thus assuring continuance for furs coming down to Quebec. It also took time for the Confederacy to subdue the seaboard nations (Abenaki, Malseet, Mig’ma, &c). It was compelled by economics-inferior trapping potential in its own zone -and strategy to expand far to the west into present-day Wisconsin. Although shrewd warriors and businessmen, the unwieldy Confederacy was challenged by somewhat the same problem as the Dutch: small populations compared with England and France which ultimately swamped both the Confederacy and the New Netherlands colony. The Iroquois never “controlled” the St Lawrence Valley (furs were coming down from the Ottawa and other northern rivers anyway), rather, such nations of the Confederacy that felt so-inclined staged attacks that were more spoiling actions than occupation of the region. Iroquois interests naturally waxed and waned in a variety of directions in such a vast, inland “empire”. In the end, it was the Confederacy’s value as a proxy English force far inland, rather than its potential to supply furs that underwrote the arming of the Confederacy. Of course its fullest force wasn’t deployed until New Netherlands was overwhelmed by English forces and to which it capitulated in 1665; at this point in time the Confederacy was struggling with its own internal political, economic, and strategic problems and happily sided with whichever colonial power paid it the most-and that turned out to be the English with whom the Confederacy played a big part in the inevitable “French and Indian Wars” in which the French and their indigenous allies could not sustain their depredations on the massive influx of English settlers round abouts the newly-named New England. And, of course, beaver are easy to trap and were therefore trapped out quite quickly -only animal quicker was sea otter Third and finally, not only was the prospect of lucrative fur trading relatively poor for New Netherlands compared with the English and French (as mentioned, the English establishment and strategic protection of Crown-chartered trading posts on Hudson Bay had at last put them on an even fur-trade footing with the French in relatively virgin trapping territory in the Northwest), not only was Dutch superiority in naval warfare and marine trade neutralized by brute numbers arrayed against them -England and the Netherlands conducted three, mainly naval wars during the 17th century), the Dutch were also preoccupied with their global trading empire and ultimately settled the war with the English for the doomed New Netherlands by negotiating neutrality with respect the Netherland’s claims on certain Caribbean islands and Surinam (“Dutch Guiana”) in South America. Conceding New Netherlands (henceforth, “New England) was doubtless disappointing to the Dutch but, in the big picture, it profited immensely by focusing on its Indian Ocean spice trade, organized by republican joint-stock companies which got the jump on rival kingdoms reluctant to licence such independent orgs-and made out very well indeed. By incorporating administrative lessons learned from its former masters, the Spanish Empire, and financial lessons learned from Jewish financiers who enjoyed and flocked to persecution-free Amsterdam (much the same way Jews previously took refuge in the republic of Venice when they were being persecuted almost everywhere else in Europe’s royal, Roman Catholic domains), along with the Dutch’s seafaring and shipbuilding prowess, it’s trading empire lasted-very lucratively for another three centuries. In sum, the Dutch position in New Netherlands was fated to be worth abandoning for better prospects elsewhere. The Iroquois Confederacy became overextended while profiting from quasi-trading and de facto military alliance with the English (and, eventually, the British, once the Scottish and English Crowns were united-which, BTW, reminds of the European rush and intense one-upmanship on the Atlantic seaboard which included bit-players like Scotland, with its crown colony in Cape Breton Island, in present-day Nova Scotia, and Sweden with its own, equally short-lived colony near New Netherlands. Weight counts and the only weight the Dutch had to counter those of its European rivals was not in numbers but, rather, in their expertise at seafaring, trade and finance. New Netherlands just wasn’t worth the agro.

Geologists haven't found any evidence of meteor impacts in Hudson Bay.

It's actually Beretta- by a couple hundred years

@@TheDraeg Further research has revealed that its the oldest company in the English speaking world. Wiki says the oldest company in the world is the Japanese construction company Kongō Gumi, founded in 578 C.E. Berretta is the oldest firearms company. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to increase my knowledge.