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Hudson Bay Company (Barbary Coast Edition)


LATE BREAKING:

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Screen grab from footage by Moses Silva

This was just posted to Youtube this morning. Obviously filmed by Moses last night. AT LEAST THREE KITS!

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Screen Grab from footage by Moses Silva.

  That brings our grand total for kits born in Alhambra Creek to 23 since 2007! Whooohooohooo! Have a cigar! Thanks Moses for capturing these moments and Linda for sharing them.

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Rickipedia sent me in search of this, which is worthy of all our attention. It’s a map of San Francisco before gold was discovered, which is fascinating in and of itself. But the part that stunned me is the old white building right off the water at the corner of Howard and Mellus streets. Guess what that is?

San Francisco before the Gold Rush

That’s the old Hudson Bay Company building, through which thousands  and thousands of California beaver furs passed. Also “bears, foxes, beavers, raccoons, and otters.” How many furs? The catalog is archived here, but we know it was enough to pay for a big building by the water in what was once Yerba Buena,

hbcHistory always seems so far away until you realize it’s right there beside you…or beneath you.

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3 comments on “Hudson Bay Company (Barbary Coast Edition)

robin ellison

That’s interesting, Heidi, the map and Hudson Bay info. About Native Americans: “Napa” (originally Nappa) and “Tulocay” come from Wappo. The 2 acres adjacent to the pond, where we stand and watch the beavers, is an old Wappo burial ground. Because of that, the slated 4-story hotel will be built on a mound of dirt, as there can be no excavating.

robin ellison

Congratulations, Heidi!!

heidi08

HAPPPPPPPPPPPPY BIRTHDAY to EVERYONE!

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