Hudson's Bay Company -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia For more than 300 years the Hudson s bay company furtrading stations lay scattered over the vast northern regions of canada. Most http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=296896&query=morecambe bay&ct=ebi
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Extractions: Origins: In 1670, Charles II of England granted a Royal Charter to Prince Rupert and seventeen associates (known collectively as "The Company of Adventurers") giving them the rights to "sole trade and commerce" within the entrance of Hudson Strait in North America. This charter effectively established the Hudson's Bay Company and gave them control over all lands whose rivers and streams drained into Hudson Bay, an enormous area designated "Rupert's Land," which encompassed most of Northern Ontario and Northern Québec, all of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, the southern half of Alberta, a large part of the Northwest Territories, and much of what is now the U.S. states of Minnesota and North Dakota altogether about 40% of modern day Canada. What began as a simple fur-trading enterprise evolved into a trading and exploration company that reached to the west coast of Canada and the United States, south to Oregon, north to the Arctic and east to Ungava Bay, with agents in Chile, Hawaii, California, and Siberia; a land development company with vast holdings in the prairie provinces; a merchandising, natural resources and real estate development company and, today, Canada's oldest corporation and one of its largest retailers.
Hudson's Bay Company - Fact Sheet - Hoover's Online and a fox.) Hudson s bay company (HBC) is canada s largest department store chain. Founded in 1670 as a fur trading enterprise, HBC is also canada s oldest http://www.hoovers.com/hudson's-bay/--ID__42417--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
Extractions: Click Here! Here's a company that's traveled a fur piece from its 17th-century roots. (The chain's coat of arms features two moose, four beavers, and a fox.) Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) is Canada's largest department store chain. Founded in 1670 as a fur trading enterprise, HBC is also Canada's oldest corporation. Its Zellers chain is Canada's #2 discount department store (behind Wal-Mart ), with more than 300 stores. HBC also runs nearly 100 the Bay department stores, more than 100 smaller Fields general merchandise and apparel stores in western Canada, 45 Home Outfitters superstores, and Hbc.com, an e-commerce site. Its department and discount store chains stretch from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Company Type Public (Toronto: HBC
HistoryTelevision.ca :: Chiefs :: Cree, The Fur Trade The Hudson s bay company and its competitor, the North West most powerful and expansive fur trading company in the The company s empire grows to include almost http://www.historytelevision.ca/chiefs/htmlen/cree/ev_furtrade.asp
Extractions: The fur trade begins almost as soon as Europeans started exploring North America. Britain and France devise ways to obtain furs from the colonies due to a huge demand for fur at home. In 1670 the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) is established under British control. The company obtains trading rights to all the land that drains into Hudson's Bay. The area becomes known as Rupert's Land. Effects of Fur Trade on the Cree Inter-tribal trade is well established on the plains when European goods such as guns, metal tools and horses arrive. The Cree are eager to trade furs for European goods and this has a significant impact on their culture and lifestyle. Trading becomes the main focus for the Cree, who function as middlemen between the Europeans and different native groups. The Cree bring European goods to inland tribes in exchange for furs. They then trade the furs with the British at forts set up along the shore of Hudson's Bay. They soon discover that Cree women can provide all the skills and knowledge needed for survival.
Province Of Manitoba | Hudson's Bay Company Archives A Resource for Historical Geography. Canadian Geographer 21 no Deidre A. Annals of the fur trade The Making of the Hudson s bay company Archives. The http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/about/hbca.html
Extractions: Microfilm Program Home About Hudson's Bay Company Archives The Hudson's Bay Company Archives represent a rich documentation of three centuries of history as the Company grew and expanded in the vast territories of Rupert's Land, which eventually became part of Canada. The Company insisted on meticulous record-keeping and ensured most records remained in its possession. It is an extraordinary collection of books, letters, ledgers, ships' logs, pictures, photographs, maps and reports. Founded by Royal Charter in 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest chartered trading company in the world. The Company's archives contain the only known documents for numerous eighteenth-century settlements in Canada, including Churchill, Manitoba; Moose Factory and Albany, Ontario; Rupert House and Eastmain, Québec; Cumberland House, Saskatchewan; and Edmonton, Alberta. The records of the HBC are of special historical value due to their continuity. For example, all of the Company Minute Books covering a period of more than three hundred years have survived except for the years 1670-1671 and 1674-1679. The extensive Company archives include original handwritten journals, correspondence and accounts of more than five hundred HBC trading posts (1688-1949), Company ships' logs, original maps and plans, various journals of travel and exploration and other Company or related documentation that accumulated in HBC files in the years since 1671. Also part of the archives is a photograph collection, an art collection and a small, specialized library.
The Hudson's Bay Company: Canada's Store - Suite101.com II, King of Great Britain, chartered a company of fur traders called the Hudson s bay company which would have monopoly of trading rights in the http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/3586/38815
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The Beaver Both English and French fur traders were soon selling beaver pelts The trade of beaver pelts proved so lucrative that the Hudson s bay company honoured the http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/o1_e.cfm
Extractions: After the early Europeans explorers had realized that Canada was not the spice-rich Orient, the main mercantile attraction was the beaver population numbering in the millions. In the late 1600s and early 1700s, the fashion of the day demanded fur hats, which needed beaver pelts. As these hats became more popular, the demand for the pelts grew. King Henry IV of France saw the fur trade as an opportunity to acquire much-needed revenue and to establish a North American empire. Both English and French fur traders were soon selling beaver pelts in Europe at 20 times their original purchase price. The trade of beaver pelts proved so lucrative that the Hudson's Bay Company honoured the buck-toothed little animal by putting it on the shield of its coat of arms in 1678. Sir William Alexander, who was granted title to Nova Scotia in 1621, had been the first to include the beaver in a coat of arms. The Hudson's Bay Company shield consists of four beavers separated by a red St. George's Cross and reflects the importance of this industrious rodent to the company. A coin was created to equal the value of one beaver pelt.
Boom Town Tales and Fort Okanogan along with other Hudson s bay properties suddenly By agreement the company continued their commerce. But the days of the fur trade were over. http://www.ghosttownsusa.com/bttales14.htm
Extractions: Fur Empire Outpost In the first half of the 19th Century, few ventures were more profitable than the fur trade. Otter and beaver furs sold for high prices in the Orient and beaver hats were fashionable in both Europe and America. By land and sea, American, British, and Canadian traders came into the Northwest to take valuable beaver all over the world. Indians provided the majority of the pelts to the traders and posts were set up in the wilderness to attract their trade. Not only was the fur trading an important business but also it would figure prominently in securing the Northwest for the United States instead of Canada. In 1811, David Stuart, a partner in the American Pacific Fur Company, headed up the Columbia River with eight men. Forty-two days after leaving Astoria, they landed their canoes on the shore of the Okanogan River in Central Washington. Here they would establish Fort Okanogan (or Oakinacken as Stuart had it-spelling played a small part in the fur trade), the first American settlement in what is now the State of Washington. The site selected was a good one. Located on sand spit at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers, it was in the middle of a long established Indian trail that led from Oregon northward to Fraser River system in Canada. Canadian traders were well aware of the benefits of such a route. No doubt the Americans sought to tap some of the Canadian trade by establishing Fort Okanogan.
Hudson's Bay Company to get the French government to support them in their efforts to develop the fur trade in the Hudson bay region The headquarters of the company was in London http://www.oregonpioneers.com/hbc.htm
Extractions: The Hudson's Bay Company was founded in eastern Canada in 1670 and for over a century dominated the fur market in that area. Ironically this great English company was the work of two Frenchmen, Pierre Radisson and Jean Groseillers who had tried for years to get the French government to support them in their efforts to develop the fur trade in the Hudson Bay region. Finally they turned to England and won a charter from King Charles II. The headquarters of the Company was in London. The Canadian operations were conducted by a number of forts scattered throughout the Hudson Bay region. In 1775 the North West Company entered the scene and for about 50 years after that the company engaged in fierce competition for the fur trade. After some bloody battles between them, the British government intervened and insisted that they settle their differences. In 1821 the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company agreed on a deed of partnership. Under the terms of this agreement, the name of the North West Company was dropped and that of the Hudson's Bay Company was retained. This gave the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific, over the northern half of the continent. For three years they used Fort George as headquarters for its Pacific operations. In 1824 the Company abandoned this site and constructed a new post on the north side of the Columbia River, 100 miles from the mouth of the Columbia. This post was called Fort Vancouver. The new post was less vulnerable to attacks from hostile ships approaching the Columbia and was better situated for securing provisions and engaging in the fur trade. (This post remained in use by the Company until 1860 when it was turned over to the U.S. Army.)
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Hudson S Bay Company Scotsmen had assumed a large role in the Montreal fur trade, and their trade cut into the declining returns of the Hudson s bay company. http://members.tripod.com/~war1812/hudsonbay.html
Extractions: corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North America and for exploration toward the discovery of the Northwest Passage to Asia. Founding The company was founded as a result of the exploration of the region by Pierre Radisson and the sieur des Groseilliers in 166869 under the auspices of London merchants. The expedition's success in opening up the fur trade with the Native Americans prompted Prince Rupert, Charles's cousin, and others to appeal to the king for a charter. A preliminary charter seems to have been granted that year, but it was not until 1670 that the much-discussed permanent charter was granted to these Gentlemen Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay. It conferred on them not only a trading monopoly but practically sovereign rights in the region specified as that drained by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay. The extent of this vast region was not then known, nor was it fully known for about a century. Early Years The company's monopoly was not respected by other English traders. The Great Company, as the Hudson's Bay Company was known, did a highly profitable business, but Hudson Bay was claimed also by the French, who sent expeditions against the posts that recently had been established near the mouths of the Moose, Albany, Severn, and Nelson rivers. Warfare went on, almost regardless of whether there was peace or war between the two nations in Europe, until after the Peace of Utrecht (171314). The French on the whole were more successful than the British in the conflict over control of the posts, but ultimately all of Hudson Bay was recognized as British territory. Rivalry, however, continued between the French traders from Montreal and Quebec and the Hudson's Bay men.
Extractions: Contents: From the Beaver to the HBC The Launch of a Trading Empire The Early Days of the HBC Standoff The Commando Raids Remarkable Adventures of the HBC The Rivalry Continues An Historic Merger Written by Elle Andra-Warner. Published by Altitude Publishing, 2003. Catalogue No. Price Format Softcover Pages Language English only Price and availability subject to change. Shipping and applicable taxes extra.
The CLEARWATER RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers" remarkably similar rock paintings across northern canada, they are put an abrupt end to the Hudson bay company s longstanding fur trading monopoly http://www.greatcanadianrivers.com/rivers/clearriver/history-home.html
Extractions: Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz CANOE Travel CNEWS CANOE Money C-Health LIFEWISE AUTONET flirt.canoe.ca Newsstand AllPop Search eBay.ca Find Old Friends Free E-Mail shop.canoe.ca CareerConnection Classified Extra Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index Great Canadian RIVERS History Ecosystem ... Economy At an overgrown landing in a small cove not far from the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, Clearwater River runners will encounter a path leading steeply up to a forested ridge. A short hike into the woodland above reveals an historic trail. Worn down by the feet of countless aboriginal hunters, voyageurs, pack horses and moose, and deeply rutted by the wheels of fur-laden ox-carts, the route extends 20 kilometres over a pine and spruce-covered sandy ridge.
GENUKI: Orkneymen With The Hudson's Bay Company by an individual in Vancouver, British Columbia, canada. Since the major fur trading company for this Pacific slopes area was the Hudson s bay company and many http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/OKI/canada.html
Extractions: Orkney Contents A biographical dictionary of fur trade and exploration west of the Rockies (from California to Alaska) is being compliled by an individual in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Since the major fur trading company for this Pacific slopes area was the Hudson's Bay Company and many HBC servants came from Orkney, family information is being sought on the Orcadians who once served in the Company west of the Rockies up to 1858. Respondents with information are asked to· please contact: If a relative were to provide information to this researcher, a dictionary entry thus far compiled from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives and other sources will be sent to the respondent. Dictionary entries (about 120 of the 3700 compiled to date are former Orcadians) vary in length from only a few lines to a page and so are in various stages of completion. The researcher would also appreciate being put in contact with family relatives elsewhere who could provide information on those Orcadians in question. Information being sought is: birth date, birth place, parents of individual
Department Of Economics, UCB - Faculty - Carlos to property rights and depletion in the Canadian fur trade; Canadian railroad finance of Hudson bay Indian Consumers and the Hudson s bay company, 16701770 http://www.colorado.edu/Economics/people/carlos.htm
Extractions: Agency problem in early chartered companies; issues relating to property rights and depletion in the Canadian fur trade; Canadian railroad finance and the role of government policy. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WRITINGS (with Frank Lewis) "Marketing in the Land of Hudson Bay: Indian Consumers and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1770," forthcoming, Enterprise and Society (with Nathalie Moyen and Jonathan Hill) "Royal African Share Prices during the South Sea Bubble, 1720," Explorations in Economic History , Vol 39, No.1 pp. 61-87, 2002. (with Frank Lewis) "Trade, Consumption, and the Native Economy: Lessons from York Factory, Hudson Bay," Journal of Economic History , Vol 61, no. 4. pp. 1037-1064, 2001. (with Frank Lewis), "Property rights, competition, and depletion in the eighteenth-century Canadian fur trade: the role of the European market," Canadian Journal of Economics , May 1999.
CM Magazine: The Nor'Westers: The Fight For The Fur Trade The story of the fight between the Hudson s bay company and the North West company for supremacy in the fur trade is an incredible story of http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol9/no20/norwesters.html
Extractions: Simon McTavish was sure of one thing: to prosper, the North West Company must have a monopoly of the fur trade of the vast interior. Fort Chipewyan, on lake Athabasca, was a good three thousand miles from Montreal. Everything needed in the trade, except for food, which the Nor'Westers bartered from Indians beyond Grand Portage, had to be carried that distance. If the company was to survive, it must keep costs low enough to show a profit. The Nor'Westers could be slow and careful like the Hudson's Bay Company-or they could use dash and enterprise. The later was the only course for McTavish. Do you remember the "Great Stories in Canadian History Series" of the 1950s, 1960s and beyond? It was a marvelous collection of dozens of monographs that retold the daring tales of Canada's great explorer- adventurers, priestly martyrs, soldiers, sailors, and airmen, mounted policemen and Native chiefs. They were great! If you don't recall them, check your elementary school library, and you will certainly find at least a few titles. Perhaps a tattered copy of Marjorie Wilkins Campbell's
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Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition The Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest corporation A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) which often has similar rights in law to those of a person (see also legal person). Critics view this "corporate personhood" as a fundamental flaw in the nature of corporations. Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name "SA" (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language. Click the link for more information. in Canada Canada , the northernmost country on the North American continent, is a federation governed as a constitutional monarchy. It is bordered by the United States to the south as well as in the northwest. The Canada-U.S. border is the world's longest undefended border. The country stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. Canada also reaches the Arctic Ocean in the north where Canada's territorial claim extends to the North Pole.
