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Wyeth abandoned the post in 1836 and the following year, leased it to the Hudson’s Bay Company. [1] [4] After Wyeth left the Pacific Northwest, John McLoughlin, the Chief Factor at Fort Vancouver, ordered Fort William demolished and a dairy farm built on the island. [5] Wyeth also sold Fort Hall in present-day Idaho to the HBC the following year.
British/Canadian fur traders wanted to create a new center of operations to avoid US taxes, and so the trading post was moved north to what became Fort William on the Canadian side of the border. [1] Fort William Historical Park is known as a living history site. Numerous historic buildings have been reconstructed to show the range of the post ...
Joseph William McKay (Mackay) (31 January 1829 – 17 December 1900) was a fur trader, businessman, politician and explorer who had a long career in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. Life
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.
In 1821, the North West Company was merged into the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the HBC took control of the fur post. [1] The HBC then used the facility as a rendezvous point for their traders forming fur brigades before traveling to points to the south. [2] The Willamette Trading Post remained in use until the mid-1830s. [1]
According to Mintel, at the time, Bay Trading had 2.3% Market share of the 19-35 ladies-wear market. In 1999, Bay Trading Company was acquired by Alexon Group plc having previously been a privately owned company. The business was relocated to Luton. At the beginning of 2009, Bay Trading had over 100+ High Street stores across the UK.
The Belfry Music Theatre, formerly known as the Belfry Theater and The Belfry Players, is a theater facility and acting company in the town of Delavan, adjacent to the village of Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Established in a former church building, the Belfry was the first summer stock theater in Wisconsin. [1]
Trading posts had specific areas set aside for York boat building. [3] York boats were similar in structure to Orkney Isles fishing boats, likely because many of the men employed by the Hudson's Bay Company were Orkneymen. [3] These boats most often traveled in brigades, transporting supplies and trading goods. [3]