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Hudson's Bay Company's first inland trading post was established by Samuel Hearne in 1774 with Cumberland House, Saskatchewan. [43] [44] Conversely, a number of inland HBC "houses" pre-date the construction of Cumberland House, in 1774.
Hudson's Bay (when it was still branded as The Bay) in Centerpoint Mall, in North York, Toronto, Ontario. The diversification of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) became necessary with the decline of fur trade in the latter half of the 19th century, and the Deed of Surrender in which ownership of the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land was transferred from HBC to the newly established ...
On Saturday, February 13, as part of a week-long Anti-Olympic Convergence, protesters smashed windows of the Downtown Vancouver location of The Hudson's Bay department store. [86] [87] Protesters later argued that the Hudson's Bay Company, "has been a symbol of colonial oppression for centuries" as well as a major sponsor of the 2010 Olympics. [88]
Richard Alan Baker (born November 27, 1965) [1] is an American business executive. He is the Governor, CEO, and Executive Chairman of Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) [3] and executive chairman of each of HBC's eight portfolio companies. [4]
Hudson's Bay Company, the oldest surviving corporation in Canada, founded in 1670 Hudson's Bay (department store), a retail subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company; Hudson's Bay point blanket wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company in exchange for beaver pelts.
John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, (October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857) was a French-Canadian, later American, Chief Factor and Superintendent of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver from 1824 to 1845.
John Shepherd (governor and chairman) (1792–1859), governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and Chairman of the East India Company; John James Shepherd (1884–1954), British Olympic tug of war competitor; John Shepherd (RAF officer) (1919–1946), British flying ace of the Second World War
Hudson's Bay Company. The Hudson's Bay Company began a trading post in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1938 at the height of the first gold rush in the region. Fire destroyed the original building in January 1945, and the HBC rebuilt and reopened this expanded trading post store and warehouse in November 1945.