The 100% owned Rex property is located approximately 130 km east of Hudson Bay and the community of Puvirnituq in Nunavik, Northern Quebec.

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They argue that their own research in the western Hudson Bay region carried out earlier this year indicated that bear numbers were increasing rather than declining.

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Several of the families sailed to Hudson Bay, in north east Canada, where they were forced to build their own shelters to protect themselves against severe winter conditions.

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As an example they point to the Western Hudson Bay area in Canada and say that hunting quotas were tripled there in 2012 against the advice of the Canadian government.

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Scientists drained some fish of their sperm or eggs, which were later fertilized to create hatchlings to reintroduce or support the fish in other parts of their ancient range in the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay and Mississippi basins.

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The Fur Auction got its start in 1670 as the Hudson's Bay Company, which bought furs from trappers and shipped them to London.

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The other document is an account of the notorious Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816 by Angus Shaw of the North West Company (NWC) - a rival fur trading company to the Hudson's Bay Company in which Lord Selkirk was a majority shareholder.

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