{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"37 - The Hudson's Bay Company &amp; Young Boys' Fiction","description":"In which we discuss the famous Hudson's Bay Company in relation to R. M. Ballantyne's 'Snowflakes &amp;amp; Sunbeams' (1856) - a pioneer of boys' fiction! How did the HBC inform Ballantyne's writing? What is the relation between the HBC and the sense of wonder and imagination that the novel depicts? This one covers all those great questions and more!&amp;nbsp; --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) &amp;amp; Facebook (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CanLitHistory). --- Support: Patreon (https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https:\/\/historiacanadiana.wordpress.com\/books\/) --- Sources &amp;amp; Further Reading:  Ballantyne, R. M. Snowflakes &amp;amp; Sunbeams: A Tale of the Far North https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/cache\/epub\/6357\/pg6357.html Bristow, Joseph. Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World, Routledge, 1991. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781315669939 Cockburn, R. H. \u201cR. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894).\u201d Arctic, vol. 37, no. 1, 1984, pp. 70\u201371. JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/40510249. Nelson, Heather E. \u201cHudson's Bay Company,\u201d Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2008. Oliver, Jeff, and Neil Curtis. \u201cPlacing the North.\u201d Historical Archaeology, vol. 49, no. 3, 2015, pp. 7\u201320, www.jstor.org\/stable\/24757022. Phillips, Richard S. \u201cSpaces of Adventure and Cultural Politics of Masculinity: R. M. Ballantyne and The Young Fur Traders.\u201d Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 13, no. 5, Oct. 1995, pp. 591\u2013608, doi:10.1068\/d130591. Reynolds, Kimberley. \u201cBallantyne, R. M.,\u201d The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.  ","author_name":"A Cultural History of Canada","author_url":"https:\/\/historiacanadiana.wordpress.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/23720666\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/131767781"}