HBC 1 M.B. ND Ungava District Hudson's Bay Company token Canada Gingras 245
Gingras 245
1.39 g
24.8 mm
Ex. Bell; Ex. Buth; Ex. Roy Hughes, Jeffrey Hoare Auctions, sale #32, lot 1807, hammered 950$, February 25th 1995; Ex. Baker (Bought in Dec. 1986 by Hughes for 875$).
Warren Baker was the cataloguer of Hughes collection for JHA. In 1995, within the catalogue of the sale, he claimed that three tokens of the Ungava district 1 M.B. are known. I know that a few more of it and of the different other denominations surfaced since then but it is still very rare.
The Bank of Canada museum dates it between 1920 to 1941. They probably used the information given in Gingras' book Medals Tokens and Paper Money of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1975. Gingras mentions the same as it coincides with his source, Mr. C. N. Stephen, a former post manager of the Ungava District.
-When created in 1895, the District of Ungava covered all of modern-day northern Quebec, the interior of modern-day Labrador, and all the islands in James Bay, the Hudson Strait, Ungava Bay, and the eastern side of Hudson Bay. With the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912, all of Ungava's remaining continental land was transferred to Quebec. The almost entirely uninhabited offshore islands of Ungava (over 1,500 of them) were not officially transferred to the District of Keewatin in the Northwest Territories until 1920, at which point the District of Ungava (which had not functioned in any administrative capacity for eight years) formally ceased to exist. (Source: Wikipedia)
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