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 Manitoba Pageant: Manitoba's First Company
In the Charter, the grant to the Hudson's Bay Company was cited as a plantation or colony, the words being extractions from the charter of the Virginia Company.
When, however, the Hudson's Bay Company was forced to awaken from "its comfortable sleep on the shores of Bay," it woke with a vengeance, struck quickly inland, absorbed its great rival, the North West Company, and forged in the new coalition a stronger and greater unit.
This company, which was later known as the Muscovy Company, established such a profitable trade with Russia and the Scandinavian countries that other companies, intrigued by its success, adopted its methods.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/16/firstcompany.shtml   (3477 words)

  
 The Fur Trade ... The Hudson's Bay and NorthWest Companies
The NorthWest Company did not recognize the monopoly claimed by the Hudson& Bay Company in Rupert's Land, and the Hudson& Bay Company had no way to enforce it.
The NorthWest Company was based in Montreal: twice the distance from the far west and the rich Athabasca country than The Hudson& Bay Company.
The Hudson& Bay Company was the established authority in the Northwest and set up the Council of Rupert's Land and the Council of Assiniboia as the appointed governments of the region.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4832/hudson3.html   (1000 words)

  
 Mount Shasta Annotated Bibliography - Chapter 7
The statement has been disputed by some, who claim that the river was named after a man named McLeod, who was in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company as a trapper, but there is not any doubt in the minds of the first settlers that the McCloud River was named after Ross.
Archibald R. McLeod, a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the year 1828, while crossing the mountains with a pack train, was overtaken by a snow storm, in which he lost most of his animals, including a noted bob-tailed race horse.
The Hudson's Bay Company's trails were to some degree followed by Jesse Applegate during his 1846 expedition to establish a new route from Oregon to Nevada.
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/bib/B7.htm   (1000 words)

  
 Peter's Rum Pages - Hudson's Bay Company
In 1821, the North West Company was merged unto the Hudson's Bay Company and the Company's title to the land was recognized by all parties.
The Hudson's Bay Company, one of the oldest, still active companies in the world, was almost 200 years old when Canada was created in 1867.
Hudson died in 1611 after his crew mutinied and left Hudson, his son, and seven crew members adrift in a small, open boat in Hudson Bay.
http://www.rum.cz/galery/nam/ca/hudsonsbay   (1157 words)

  
 The Fur Trade ... The Hudson's Bay and NorthWest Companies
The NorthWest Company did not recognize the monopoly claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land, and the Hudson's Bay Company had no way to enforce it.
The NorthWest Company was based in Montreal: twice the distance from the far west and the rich Athabasca country than The Hudson's Bay Company.
The Hudson's Bay Company was the established authority in the Northwest and set up the Council of Rupert's Land and the Council of Assiniboia as the appointed governments of the region.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4832/hudson3.html   (1157 words)

  
 The North West Company & the Hudson's Bay Company Rivalry
Though both were under the British Crown, the North West Company did not recognize the monopoly claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company in "Rupert's Land", (now western Canada) and the Hudson's Bay Company had no way to enforce it.
The North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company Rivalry
North West Company and Rivalry with the Hudson's Bay Company
http://www.goldiproductions.com/first_peoples/fp24_nwco.html   (667 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Hudson's Bay Company
The founding charter granted the company control over all lands draining into Hudson Bay, a very large area called Rupert’s Land, which included much of the western prairie and northern subarctic regions.
The company itself was interested only in maintaining its fur-trading monopoly, and thus it made no effort to settle the barren lands around Hudson Bay.
With his charter of the same year, King Charles II granted the company the vastest empire any private company has ever controlled.
http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=521   (698 words)

  
 Henry Hudson - MSN Encarta
Henry Hudson (?-1611?), English navigator, famous for four great voyages of discovery; a river and a bay in North America are named for him.
Upon his return, the Muscovy Co. withdrew their support, and Hudson turned to the Dutch East India Co. for new funds and a ship to carry on his work.
A few survivors from the mutinous crew reached England, where they were imprisoned, but Hudson and the others were never seen again.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561666/Henry_Hudson.html   (433 words)

  
 The Fur Trade ... The Hudson's Bay and NorthWest Companies
The Hudson& Bay Company was the established authority in the Northwest and set up the Council of Rupert's Land and the Council of Assiniboia as the appointed governments of the region.
Expansion in the west followed a distinct pattern: the NorthWest Company would build an inland trading post, and the Hudson& Bay Company would follow building their fort adjacent to the NorthWest Company's.
The NorthWest Company was based in Montreal: twice the distance from the far west and the rich Athabasca country than The Hudson& Bay Company.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4832/hudson3.html   (1000 words)

  
 Interview with Edward S. Kennedy, The North West Company.: TWST
North West operated as the smaller Northern Stores Division of the Hudson's Bay Company and was made up of retail stores serving remote areas of Northern Canada.
Kennedy: The Northwest Company was spun-off from the Hudson Bay Company through a leveraged buy-out in 1987.
The Hudson's Bay Company was and still is a national retailer in Canada with two principal formats - discount merchandising and department stores.
http://www.twst.com/notes/articles/han643.html   (648 words)

  
 MHS Centennial Business: The North West Company
In 1821, after thirty-five years of conflict, the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company united and their two histories were one until the Hudson's Bay Company sold off its Northern Stores and The North West Company was re-incorporated in April 1987.
The name "North West Company" first described a group of Montreal traders who pooled resources in 1776 to reduce competition and to resist the inland advances of the Hudson's Bay Company.
The exact date that the North West Company began operations in what is now Manitoba is not as easily determined because few of the early records have survived.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/business/northwestco.shtml   (201 words)

  
 North-West Company
The Hudson Bay rules about no trade allowed were ignored, after all, the Hudson's Bay Company people were sitting at their forts or factories on Hudson& Bay waiting for furs to come to them.
The North-West Company set up their forts closer to where the furs were so the Aboriginal people would bring the furs to them instead.
These Peddlers, as they were called, would travel into the west by canoe, stay and trade for the winter and travel back out to a post about halfway between Saskatchewan and Montreal to drop off their furs.
http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/k9adapt/ss4/u2/fur_trade/nwc.htm   (444 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Their rendezvous were consistently located near a Hudson's Bay Company post in an attempt to draw off some of the Indian trade.
It was not to the benefit of the Hudson's Bay Company to have hostility in the region.
The Rocky Mountain Fur Company was constantly challenging the domain of the Hudson's Bay Company.
http://www.oregonpioneers.com/rmfc.htm   (577 words)

  
 The Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company forts at Île-à-la-Crosse, 1820, by George Back - The Canadian West - Exhibitions - Library and Archives Canada
The Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company forts at Île-à-la-Crosse, 1820, by George Back - The Canadian West - Exhibitions - Library and Archives Canada
Their voyage started in York Factory on Hudson Bay and passed through present-day northern Alberta and Saskatchewan before turning north for the Arctic Ocean.
The Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company forts at Île-à-la-Crosse 1820, by George Back
http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052910/05291021_e.html   (138 words)

  
 northwestcompany
The Hudson's Bay Company invaded areas, such as the Athabaska country, which they had hitherto left to the Nor'Westers; and the Nor' Westers devoted all their energies to the prosecution of the struggle with the Hudson's Bay men, instead of to the prosecution of the fur-trade.
The agreement of 1804 was the constitution under which the company operated for the rest of its life.
After a severe contest, the XY Company was in 1804 absorbed in the North West Company, and was given a quarter interest in the new concern, which was reorganized on the basis of one hundred shares.
http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/encyclopedia/northwestcompany.htm   (665 words)

  
 HeraldicAmerica: HUDSON, FROBISHER & EARLY EXPLORATION OF CANADA
Normally, the supposition is that the Cross in the arms of the Hudson's Bay Company was simply the Cross of St.George as in the banner of England (Swan, 1977: 216-217).
The Dictionary of National Biography, for example, indulges in outright speculation concerning his ancestry when it informs us that he "was not improbably, as has been conjectured, the grandson of Henry Hudson, or Herdson, alderman of London, who helped to found the Muscovy Company in 1555, and died in the same year.
This older Henry Hudson left many sons and kinsmen, whose names sometimes appear as Hoddeson and Hogeson, and who all seem to have been interested or connected with the Muscovy Company".
http://pages.infinit.net/cerame/heraldicamerica/etudes/puzzles.htm   (1762 words)

  
 Hudson
One source styles the father of Henry and William HUDSON as 'Henry HUDSON, Gent., Alderman of London, Lord of Manors, etc.' Henry was probably a member of the Muscovy Company, or Association of Merchant Adventurers, which Sebastian CABOT founded by 1553.
The crew, after wintering on the Bay, mutinied and set Henry HUDSON and eight others, including Henry's sson John, adrift on June 23, 1611.
Little information is available about the three Henry HUDSONs and their relationship the the Muscovy Company, and to William HUDSON.
http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/hudson.htm   (1133 words)

  
 NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
The Hudson’s Bay Company also encountered fierce competition from the North West Company (charted in 1784 by Scotsmen), which now dominated the Montreal-based fur trade.
The French also claimed the Hudson Bay and sent out various military expeditions against British posts, with some successes, until 1713 and the Treaty of Utrecht, when they abandoned their efforts.
The Company of New France (or Company of One Hundred Associates), charted in 1627 in order to settle the colony as well as develop commerce, largely ignored the former in favor of the lucrative fur trade.
http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/furtrade.html   (1133 words)

  
 The Fur Trade of Quebec
Two of the servants of the French Company of One Hundred Associates, Raddison and Grosseillier, adventurous explorers, made a journey to Hudson's Bay by Lake Superior to Lake Winnipeg and thence by rivers and connecting waters.
A preliminary voyage to Hudson's Bay was made by Grosseilliers, who, returning the next year with a ship laden with furs, convinced Prince Rupert and his associates of the value of the proposal.
From "The Journal of the Late Actions of the French in Canada," Bayard and Ludovick, 1693, I extract the following bit of information from the evidence of one Andre Casparus, an escaped prisoner, before Governor Fletcher at New York.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles21/quebec-32.shtml   (1133 words)

  
 Henry Hudson --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
In 1610 he set out again for America, this time on behalf of the Muscovy Company and the English East India Company, and discovered Hudson Bay.
In 1609 he set out in the Half Moon to find a similar passage for the Dutch East India Company, but, when stopped by storms, he instead sought the Northwest Passage, which he had recently heard about from other explorers, and cruised along the Atlantic coast and up the Hudson River.
Sailing for the Muscovy Company of London in search of the Northeast Passage to the Far East, he was blocked by ice fields.
http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9367488   (1038 words)

  
 Hudson, Henry - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hudson, Henry
In September 1609, commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, he reached New York Bay and sailed 240 km/150 mi up the river that now bears his name, establishing Dutch claims to the area.
After an icebound winter, he was turned adrift by a mutinous crew in what is now Hudson Bay.
Under the auspices of the Muscovy Company (1607–08), he made two unsuccessful attempts to find the Northeast Passage to China.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Hudson,+Henry   (150 words)

  
 North West Company
The NWC soon emerged as the dominant fur-trade enterprise in Montreal and the trade became a rivalry between the Nor'Westers and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), based to the north in Hudson Bay.
Nor'Westers, as the company men were called, were among the most daring adventurers and skilled traders in the Northwest.
The North West Company (NWC) was a fur-trading enterprise based in Montreal and active in the Canadian West from the 1770s until 1821.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0005800   (547 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: The North West Company establishes Spokane House in 1810.
After the HudsonÂ’s Bay Company abandoned Spokane House, Jaco Finlay, who had founded it, moved onto the site with his Indian wife and their family.
In 1821, the North West Company was merged into its longtime trading rival, the HudsonÂ’s Bay Company, which took over the operation of all the North West posts, including Spokane House.
It was the pelts of these large rodents that motivated the exploring efforts of the North West Company and most of the other newcomers to the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5099   (1073 words)

  
 The_NorthWest_Company
The NorthWest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company continued their rivalry; building trading forts next to eachother west to the Rockies, then to the Pacific.
It was easier for the natives to trade with the Nor'Westers at a convenient trading post in the Athabasca country than to go all the way to Hudson's Bay.
The NorthWest Company had to move their furs down rivers to Lake Winnepeg, down the Winnepeg River to the Lake of the Woods, then East along the Ontario/Minnesota border to Montreal.
http://matts-projects.5u.com/northwest.html   (1073 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - North West Company
In the 18th century the Hudson's Bay Company had a...
North West Company, the company of fur traders set up in opposition to the Hudson's Bay Company.
In 1602 the Dutch parliament granted the Dutch East India Company a charter giving it a trading monopoly with all countries east of the Cape of Good...
http://uk.encarta.msn.com/North_West_Company.html   (165 words)

  
 Canada 5 from Hospitality North, Prince George, British Columbia
The Hudson Bay region (Rupert's Land and the adjoining North-Western Territory) was a wilderness where the Hudson's Bay Company and small, aggressive Scottish companies competed for the fur trade.
In 1627 Richelieu organized a joint-stock company, the Company of One Hundred Associates, to found a powerful center of French civilization in the New World.
Further explorations of the interior were carried out by coureurs de bois, adventurous, unlicensed fur traders who wanted to escape company restrictions.
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/hospitalitynorth/canada-4.htm   (165 words)

  
 North West Company
The North West Company was a Canadian fur trading company that operated in competition with the Hudson& Bay Company from 1783-1821 when the two companies were forced to merge..
The North West Company was staffed and run primarily by Canadiens, or Montreal-based traders, the Nor’Westers, who pooled their resources in hopes of reducing competition amongst themselves and edging out the Hudson& Bay Company monopoly.
Take turns recording point form notes about the history of the North West Company and how it helped Canadian Pioneers survive and settle in the early Canadian West.
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/De/Saskatchewan100/WhoWantstoBeaPioneer/NWC.htm   (223 words)

  
 Robert Semple
For some time previous to the arrival of Governor Scruple there had been a conflict of authority between the Hudson bay company and the Northwest trading company, which resulted in bloodshed on several occasions.
He was nominated chief governor of all the factories and territories of the Hudson bay company in 1815, and, sailing from England, reached York factory, British America, in August of the same year.
Oil 19 June, 1816, Cuthbert Grant, a half-breed, representing the Northwest company, in command of a band of Indians and others, marched against Fort Douglas, attacked Governor Scruple while he was parleying with them, and killed him and twenty-seven others.
http://www.famousamericans.net/robertsemple   (223 words)

  
 Search Results for "hudson"
Hudson s Bay Company, corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North America and...
Hudson Bay, inland sea of North America, c.475,000 sq mi (1,230,000 sq km), c.850 mi (1,370 km) long and c.650 mi (1,050 km) wide, E central Canada.
Hudson, river, United States, river, c.315 mi (510 km) long, rising in Lake Tear of the Clouds, on Mt. Marcy in the Adirondack Mts., NE N.Y., and flowing generally...
http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=hudson   (266 words)

  
 Mirabilis.ca: Canada Archives
In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson's Bay Company sent men to its furthest posts along the coast of North America's Pacific Northwest, the letters of those who cared for those men followed them in the Company's supply ships.
Basque Whaling in Red Bay, Labrador - Newfoundland Heritage
Palsson, who is writing a biography of Stefansson, doesn't rule out the possibility Norse expeditions to Newfoundland, Labrador and Baffin Island led gradually to peaceful intermingling with the Inuit, abandonment of the Greenland settlements and, finally, assimilation.
http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_canada.html   (9321 words)

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