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Hudson Bay, [a] sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1,230,000 km 2 (470,000 sq mi). It is located north of Ontario , west of Quebec , northeast of Manitoba , and southeast of Nunavut , but politically entirely part of Nunavut. [ 5 ]
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.
In 1839, the Hudson's Bay Company were convinced of the need to dispense formal justice throughout Rupert's Land and established a court at the Red River Colony, in the "District of Assiniboia", south of Lake Winnipeg. A Recorder and President of the Court would act as legal organizer, adviser, magistrate, and councillor and be responsible for ...
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.
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Henry Kelsey (c. 1664 – 1 November 1724) was an English fur trader, explorer, and sailor who played an important role in establishing the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. He is the first recorded European to have visited the present-day provinces of Saskatchewan and, possibly, Alberta , as well as the first to have explored the Great Plains ...
Hudson Bay Lowlands - Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Archived 2014-04-11 at the Wayback Machine; Proposed protected areas in Manitoba. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine; Hudson Bay in The Canadian Encyclopedia; Hudson Bay Lowlands - Ottertooth; Arctic Institute paper by Hugo Sjörs, Bogs and Fens in the Hudson Bay Lowlands ...
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 ...