The Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait owe their namesake to the English explorer, Henry Hudson, who explored them while looking for the Northwest Passage.

I wonder, however, if the success is worth what happened in late June of 1611, when his crew mutinied after a hard winter stranded in James Bay.

Their fate is unknown, but in 1959 an Ontario road crew found a boulder with a perhaps telling inscription: “HH 1612 CAPTIVE.” You can see the Hudson Stone for yourself at Tenna-Brise Park in Chalk River, Ontario.

A member of the road crew first kept the stone in his house. It ended up at a park, and within a month vandals rolled it off its mount, breaking the stone into four pieces.

Luckily, the carving remained intact upon one piece.