An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

* 1867 – The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

In 1843, the Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Camosun at nearby Vancouver Island.

In 1855 Washington Territory levied a property tax on properties of the Hudson's Bay Company on San Juan Island, which the HBC refused to pay.

Before 1850, most of the freshwater on the islands was held in beaver ( Castor canadensis ) ponds, although the aquatic mammal was extirpated by Hudson's Bay Company fur stations at Fort Langley and San Juan Island.

* Colony of Vancouver Island, founded by the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria in 1843.

The Hudson's Bay Company played a major part in the transition ; by 1824 ' Vancouver's Island ' had become the usual designation in its correspondence for the island.

consisted of the separate Colony of British Columbia ( formed in 1858, in an area where the Crown had previously granted a monopoly to the Hudson's Bay Company ), and the Colony of Vancouver Island ( formed in 1849 ) constituting a separate crown colony until it was united with the Colony of British Columbia in 1866.

In 1859 Pickett was dispatched in command of Company D, 9th U. S. Infantry, to garrison San Juan Island in response to discord that had arisen there between American farmers and the Hudson's Bay Company.

In 1836 the Hudson's Bay Company established a post on Old Fort Island, and in 1861, the Company opened a post on the mainland at Kenora's current location.

In 1858, Alexander Tilloch Galt made a motion in the Legislature at Kingston recommending that the Province of Canada ask the British Government to create a federal union of British North America ( Canada East and West, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia ) and Rupert's Land ( owned by the Hudson's Bay Company ).

At the time of McCreight's arrival in Victoria in 1860, it was the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, which at the time was governed by the powerful and autocratic Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir James Douglas.

In 1862, the Hudson's Bay Company sold their coalfields, including Newcastle Island, to the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company right before a series of strikes took place over the poor working conditions of the Nanaimo and Newcastle Island mines.

In 1856, Adam Horne, a Scottish fur trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, was directed to locate a land route across Vancouver Island.

During the 1840s the Hudson's Bay Company — HBC shifted its Columbia Department headquarters from Fort Vancouver to Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island.

* Sir James Douglas ( governor ) ( 1803 – 1877 ), governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia ; head of Hudson's Bay Company operations in the Columbia District

From about 1815 to 1821 the Hudson's Bay Company maintained a competing Fort Wedderburn on Coal Island a mile and a half from the North West Company's fort.

An unusual clause in the 1664 colonial land grant that outlined the territory the proprietors of New Jersey would receive reads: " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river " rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

The name " Half Moon " refers to the name of explorer Henry Hudson's ship, which anchored off Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn ( the location of Coney Island ), while searching for a short cut to Asia.

He was the son of Dr. William Fraser Tolmie, a prominent figure in the Hudson's Bay Company and a member of both the colonial assembly of Colony of Vancouver Island and the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

In 1915 the Hudson's Bay Company sent Mr. Christy Harding to Herschel Island to establish a post.

Moose Factory, located on Moose Factory Island near the river's mouth, was a fur trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company and Ontario's first English settlement.

On 23 January 2012, The Financial Post reported that Richard Baker ( owner of NDRC and governor of Hudson Bay's Company ) had dissolved Hudson ’ s Bay Trading Company and that the Hudson's Bay Company would now also operate the Lord & Taylor chain.

Britain also claimed Rupert's Land, where posts of the Hudson's Bay Company traded for furs with local tribes.

The Hudson's Bay Company had nearly a complete monopoly on trading ( and most governing issues ) in the Columbia District, or Oregon Country as it was referred to by the Americans, and also in Rupert's Land ( western Canada ).

En route, the party accompanied American fur traders going to the 1836 rendezvous on the Green River in Wyoming and then joined Hudson's Bay Company fur traders traveling west to Fort Nez Perce ( also called Fort Walla Walla ).

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

From 1670, through the Hudson's Bay Company, the English also laid claim to Hudson Bay, and its drainage basin ( known as Rupert's Land ), and operated fishing settlements in Newfoundland.

Great Britain also colonized the west coast of North America, indirectly via the Hudson's Bay Company licenses west of the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia and New Caledonia fur districts, most of which were jointly claimed as the Oregon Country by the United States from 1818 until the 49th parallel was established as the international boundary west of the Rockies by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

Yakima Pass was also used by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Among the past and present groups formed by royal charter are the British East India Company ( 1600 ), the Hudson's Bay Company, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ( P & O ), the British South Africa Company, and some of the former British colonies on the North American mainland, also the Bank of England.

Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg.

The two explorers are famous not only for their explorations and trade, but also notably for their participation in the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Beckey also perused the Canadian archives in Ottawa ; Hudson's Bay Co. archives in Winnipeg ; British Columbia archives in Victoria ; records of the Northwest Boundary Survey at Yale University ; and records of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads in Minneapolis.

The Hudson's Bay Company also used a Red Ensign as their corporate flag.

The Battle of Seven Oaks ( known to the Métis people as la Victoire de la Grenouillière, or the Victory of Frog Plain ; also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre ) was a violent confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies on June 19, 1816, climaxing what was a long dispute in western Canada.

Liberals also accused the government of benefiting the Hudson's Bay Company, which owned the London office that the government leased, more than Alberta.

Lever Brothers Ltd also acquired other soap companies including A & F Pears, Gossage's of Widnes, Watson's of Leeds, Crosfield's of Warrington, Hazlehurst & Sons of Runcorn and Hudson's of Liverpool.

While the Hudson's Bay Company shops appear mainly in flagship stores and its Banff, Alberta location, products from the Hudson's Bay Company Collection ( not including limited edition items ) are also available at other locations, most notably the Point Blanket.

By the end of the decade, the Hudson's Bay Company had also set up a post on the island.

) Manson, famed hunting guide and father of Tom ( William Martley ) and ' Colonel "( Donald Arthur ) Manson, also well-known hunting guides, and grand-son of Donald Manson, well known in the early history of the Hudson's Bay Company in BC.

Hudson's once innovative " step-down " unit body construction, while sturdy and innovative, also made restyling difficult and expensive.

It also references the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, which was the namesake of the pre – Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

From 1670, through the Hudson's Bay Company, the English also laid claim to Hudson Bay and its drainage basin ( known as Rupert's Land ), and operated fishing settlements in Newfoundland.

The act also enlarged the boundaries of Quebec to include the Ohio Country and Illinois Country, from the Appalachian Mountains on the east, south to the Ohio River, west to the Mississippi River and north to the southern boundary of lands owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, or Rupert's Land.

Others also mention fur trappers from the Hudson's Bay Company.