Hudson Bay Point Blanket Coat

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Hudson bay point blanket coat.

Early mount everest expeditions depended on them and colonel and mrs. Hbc heritage is an internal department of hudson s bay company. Charles lindbergh wore point blanket coats on their flight to europe by way of greenland and iceland. Made from hudson s bay point blankets these striped coats are iconically canadian.

Beaver pelts were exchanged for blankets through the hudson s bay company and its outposts throughout northern canada. Hudson s bay wool point blankets in the late 1700s wool blankets were so important to comfort and survival that they were used as a form of currency in trading between trappers and native americans. The blanket design was introduced in the late 1700s by the hbc and the material was soon adapted into coats by fur traders. Point blankets introduced to the north american wilderness in 1779.

Woven in england of the finest long staple australian wools these blankets are of the same quality as those traded here over 200 years ago. Hudson s bay point blankets were used twice by admiral byrd s expeditions to the antarctic. Capotes were worn by first nations métis french settlers traders trappers and later british settlers throughout the fur trade era. A capote is a handmade wrap style coat often made from a hudson s bay point blanket.