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The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the largest and oldest corporation in Canada.. As of December 2024, HBC has a Canadian division responsible for the namesake Hudson's Bay department stores (colloquially The Bay; La Baie in French), and an American division (Saks Global) that includes the full-line ...
Hudson's Bay (French: La Baie d'Hudson), formerly and still colloquially known as The Bay (French: La Baie), is a Canadian department store chain. It is the flagship brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America as well as one of the oldest and largest continuously operating companies in the world.
John Thomas (or Thompson, [1] c. 1751 – June 9, 1822) was a Canadian fur trader who played a significant role in the exploration and establishment of posts by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in North America.
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.
Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/1640–1710) was a French coureur des bois and explorer in New France.He is often linked to his brother-in-law Médard des Groseilliers.The decision of Radisson and Groseilliers to enter the English service led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Canada's History in its former title. In 1994, Canada's National History Society was founded; that same year, it acquired The Beaver from the Hudson's Bay Company. While still named The Beaver, the masthead carried a new slogan: "Canada's History Magazine," and continued to publish a bimonthly mix of features, columns, reviews, notes and ...
Fort Nisqually was an important fur trading and farming post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Puget Sound area, part of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. It was located in what is now DuPont, Washington. Today it is a living history museum located in Tacoma, Washington, USA, within the boundaries of Point Defiance Park.
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.