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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 ...
The Pemmican War was a series of violent confrontations between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC) in the Canadas from 1812 to 1821. It started after the establishment of the Red River Colony by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1812, and ended in 1821 when the NWC was merged into the HBC.
Ships from England had to lay at the river mouth at Albany Roads. In 1683, Governor Henry Sergeant was directed to make it the primary trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company; it was the largest fort on the Bay at that point, with four bastions and forty-three guns. [3]:51 In 1684 a Monsieur Péré reached the fort from French Canada.
Six Nakoda were killed and five Bay men wounded in a brisk exchange of gunfire and arrow-flight. [19] Already by that time, horses were being kept at Horse Hill in what is now northeast Edmonton. [20] The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company merged in 1821. After the amalgamation, the companies used the Hudson's Bay Company name.
All these poor people know is that Canada has bought the Country from the Hudson's Bay Company, and that they are handed over like a flock of sheep to us...". [8] In 1927, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the terms of the Charter had granted ownership of all the land in the Hudson Bay drainage to the company, including all precious minerals.
His nephew William McGilivray ran the company, until the Hudson's Bay Company merger of 1821. There are historical references to a North West Company as early as 1770, including the Montreal-based traders Benjamin Frobisher , Isaac Todd , Alexander Henry the elder and others, but the standard histories trace the company to a 16-share ...
1670: Hudson's Bay Company founded. 1670–79: English trading posts built on James Bay, including: 1668: Rupert House (southeast) 1673: Moose Factory (south) and Fort Albany (west). 1672: Father Charles Albanel travels from Quebec to Rupert House, but finds it deserted. 1674: Albanel again reaches Rupert House. He and Groseillers are sent to ...
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.