HUDSON BAY
TRIBUTE TO DISCOVERER EMPIRE DAY WREATH VANCOUVER, August S On Midsummer Day, 1611, Henry Hudson, the discoverer of Hudson Bay, his son and ' eight faithful followers, were cast adrift to perish in a shallop by the mutinous crew of Hudson's 70-ton vessel, the Discoverie. Major Ashley Cooper, governor of the Hudson Bay Company, on Empire Dnv paid tribute to their memories on behalf of the Empire Day movement. At the spot off Belcher Island, in Hudson Bay, where more than three centuries ago the celebrated navigator was left to his fate, Major Cooper threw on to the waters from H.M.S. Nascopie a wreath purchased with pennies contributed by schoolchildren throughout the Empire. At six bells the flagwas flown at half-mast, in the presence of the officials of the company, mounted police, the officers and crew of the Nascopie and the personnel of the company. A silence of two minutes was observed and pipers played a lament, followed by the march tune of the Black Watch as the Nascopie got under way again.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21881, 17 August 1934, Page 11
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174HUDSON BAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21881, 17 August 1934, Page 11
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