Since the land he desired lay within the great northern empire of the Hudson's Bay Company, he purchased great blocks of the Comany's stock with the view to controlling its policies.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

Alexander McDonnell, governor of Red River, and James Bird, a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, ordered such `` sundry articles '' to a value of Ab4,500.

For its part the Hudson's Bay Company was troubled by the approach of American settlement.

Accordingly, though the practice violated the no-trading provision of the Selkirk charter which reserved all such activity in merchandise and furs to the Hudson's Bay Company, some settlers went into trade.

In June 1845, the Governor and Council of Assiniboia imposed a 20 per cent duty on imports via Hudson's Bay which were viewed as aimed at the `` very vitals of the Company's trade and power ''.

It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

* The Bay, a chain of department stores in Canada, subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company.

The new Dominion of Canada acquired the territories of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870.

However, given the long history of control by the Hudson's Bay Company, there was some uncertainty as to the date of reception.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

Many European nations chartered corporations to lead colonial ventures, such as the Dutch East India Company or the Hudson's Bay Company, and these corporations came to play a large part in the history of corporate colonialism.

In 1784, at the age of 14, he entered a seven-year apprenticeship with the Hudson's Bay Company.

It was during this time he greatly refined and expanded his mathematical, astronomical and surveying skills under the tutelage of Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Philip Turnor.

He then entered the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trader and in 1792 completed his first significant survey, mapping a route to Lake Athabasca ( presently straddling the Alberta / Saskatchewan border ).

Thompson continued working for the Hudson's Bay Company until May 23, 1797 when, frustrated with the Hudson's Bay Company's policies, he left and walked 80 miles in the snow to enter the employ of the competition, the North West Company where he continued to work as a fur trader and surveyor.

** Hudson's Bay Company's 1825 Fort Vancouver

The Hudson's Bay Company (), abbreviated HBC, or " The Bay " (" La Baie " in French ) is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world.

A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada and the United States including the Bay, Lord & Taylor, Zellers, and Home Outfitters.

The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay and functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to those territories.

The Hudson's Bay Company Archives, a collection of the company's many records and maps, are located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

From 2008 to 2012, the company was run through a holding company of NRDC, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, which was dissolved on 23 January 2012.

According to Thomas Edge, an early 17th century whaling captain who was often inaccurate, " William Hudson " discovered the island in 1608 and named it " Hudson's Touches " ( or " Tutches ").

At the time, the wives of many Hudson's Bay field employees were indigenous, including McLoughlin's wife Marguerite ; who was metis, the daughter of an aboriginal woman and a trader named Jean-Etienne Waddens.

The French were trying to gain advantage in the struggle for the North American fur trade against the English, who had recently established the Hudson's Bay Company.

According to some, the Six Cailloux name was appropriated to this region by Stephen Meek, another Hudson's Bay Company trapper who was known for his " discovery " of Scott Valley, in regard to a crossing on the Klamath River near Hornbrook.

Hudson's protagonist Abel, references Ahasuerus, as an archetype of someone, like himself, who prays for redemption and peace ; while condemned to walk the earth.

This was not good news for the Blackfeet, who until that point had controlled firearms through trade relations with the Hudson's Bay Company.

The name of the community is a variation of the French Grande Ronde or " fine large valley ", a description given to the area by the employees of the Hudson's Bay Company, who were French-Canadian.

The settlement was then called Brownsville, after Captain James Brown, but was later named Ogden for a brigade leader of the Hudson's Bay Company, Peter Skene Ogden, who had trapped in the Weber Valley a generation earlier.

In 1841 the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes mapped the region and named Neah Bay " Scarborough Harbour " in honor of Captain James Scarborough of the Hudson's Bay Company, who had provided assistance to the expedition.

Christian was living in the guest house after Clark, who had left in 1983, had returned to Hudson's home in 1985 to take care of him at assistant Mark Miller's request.

Douglas later wrote a book in response to the flood of letters he received from readers who wanted to know where they could find the book to which he referred in the novel, Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal.

Brooks ' report confirmed the observations of Thomas Simpson, an officer of the Hudson's Bay Company who first observed the seepages in 1836.

For the next four years, it was little more than a loose association of a few Montreal merchants who discussed how they might break the stranglehold the Hudson's Bay Company held on the North American fur trade.

George Simpson ( 1787 – 1860 ), the Hudson's Bay Company Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land who became the Canadian head of the northern division of the greatly enlarged business, made his headquarters in the Montreal suburb of Lachine.

In Newfoundland and Hudson's Bay French influence now predominated but William III, who had made the interests of the Bay company a cause of war in North America, was not prepared to hazard his European policy for the sake of their pursuit.

After this, he was assigned to the Red River Valley area, where he was caught up in the conflict between the North West Company and Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk, a controlling shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company who had established the Red River Colony.

Catholic missionaries, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who passed by in those years set up a small mission on one of Savage Islands, but never had great success and withdrew, when the activities of Hudson's Bay Company ended by mid-1940s and the Inuit had migrated into communities.

Kanakas, who were Hawaiian immigrant laborers, worked for the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company on a term-basis and once their term was completed they were free to go wherever they pleased.

The original First Nations peoples who inhabited the island left in 1849 when the Hudson's Bay Company started opening up coal mines.

The name " Hudson " came from Joseph L. Hudson, a Detroit department store entrepreneur and founder of Hudson's department store, who provided the necessary capital and gave permission for the company to be named after him.

It was explored by trappers from the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, such as Donald Mackenzie who pioneered the area, from 1819.

The actual area of settlement, centered at present day Winnipeg, was limited to the Red River valley between Lower Fort Garry and Pembina, ND and the Assiniboine River valley between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba The District was governed by a Hudson's Bay Company appointed Governor of Assiniboia who was advised by members of the Council of Assiniboia.

Tomison's Academy was founded by William Tomison, a native of the island who became Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Adopted by a Mohawk family, who take him to Hudson Bay, there he changes sides and becomes English, participates in the formation of Hudson's Bay Company, and charter of Rupert's Land to it in 1670, deftly switching country allegiances several times France-England-France-England during the process.