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George R. Ray
1869–1935
Best remembered for a Hudson Bay adventure novel, this English-born writer also lived a remarkably varied life that included naval service, accounting work, and public life in Manitoba. His fiction drew on years spent in the Canadian North, giving it a strong sense of place.
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Kasba (White Partridge): A Story of Hudson Bay
by George R. Ray
About the author
Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1869, George R. Ray worked as an accountant in London and Africa, served in the Royal Navy from 1888 to 1891, and moved to Canada in 1899. He later worked in Winnipeg and eventually spent years with the Hudson's Bay Company, experience that helped shape the northern settings in his writing.
Ray is associated with Kasba: A Story of Hudson Bay (1926), a novel set in the far North and centered on life around Hudson Bay. Alongside his writing, he also took part in public life and served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1915.
He died in 1935. Though not widely known today, his work remains of interest to readers drawn to early Canadian adventure fiction and stories rooted in the Hudson Bay region.