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    The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's...
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  • The North West Company Inc. is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories;...
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  • The North West Trading Company was organized in Portland, Oregon, United States in 1879 by Paul Schulze and Henry Villard in order to do business in Alaska...
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    North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire...
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  • and North America French West India Company (1664–1674), French trading company, with a monopoly on the slave trade from Senegal Swedish West India...
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    The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; Pashto: شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, Urdu: شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947...
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    north end of Baffin Island, or West of Baffin Island (impractical): Through Hudson Strait south of Baffin Island, north through the Foxe Basin, west through...
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    Bay Company during the period of its greatest power, a period which began in 1821 following the company's merger with the North West Trading Company. John...
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    slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America. The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (between the Tropic of Cancer and...
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  • The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the North West of England. Since 2019–20, the league has covered the Isle of Man, Cheshire...
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  • or north-west or north west may also refer to: Northwest (direction), an intercardinal direction North West (Nigeria) North West Tunisia North-West District...
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  • Commercial Company (NCC), and in 1992 it resumed business as the Alaska Commercial Company under the ownership of The North West Company. After the 1867...
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    Columbia District (category Hudson's Bay Company)
    British North America in the 19th century. Much of its territory overlapped with the disputed Oregon Country. It was explored by the North West Company between...
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    Europe, and North America became a major supplier. Several British companies, most notably the North West Company (NWC) and the Hudson's Bay Company, were eventual...
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  • North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) is a state owned power and electric company in Bangladesh and is located in UTC Building (Level 3...
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  • John Rowand (category North West Company people)
    (c. 1787 – 30 May 1854) was a fur trader for the North West Company and later, the Hudson's Bay Company. At the peak of his career, he was Chief Factor...
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    The North-West Rebellion (French: Rébellion du Nord-Ouest), also known as the North-West Resistance, was an armed resistance movement by the Métis under...
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    James Douglas (governor) (category Hudson's Bay Company people)
    services to the Crown. He started work at 16 for the North West Company and then the Hudson's Bay Company and became a high-ranking officer. From 1851 to 1864...
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    Oregon Trail (category Trails and roads in the American Old West)
    they sold out to the North West Company. By 1821, intense competition between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company reached the point...
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    trade companies New Netherland Company Hudson's Bay Company North West Company Missouri Fur Company American Fur Company Russian-American Company Rocky...
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    David Thompson (explorer) (category North West Company)
    the North West Company. There he continued to work as a fur trader and surveyor: xli–xliii . Thompson's decision to defect to the North West Company (NWC)...
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  • The Danish West India Company (Danish: Vestindisk kompagni) or Danish West India–Guinea Company (Det Vestindisk-Guineisk kompagni) was a Dano-Norwegian...
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    Cuthbert Grant (category North West Company people)
    an employee of the North West Company. Cuthbert Grant was born in about 1793 at Fort de la Rivière Tremblante, a North West Company trading post located...
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    The West North Central states form one of the nine geographic subdivisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau...
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    services company with its headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The current company is the result of the 2020 amalgamation of The Great-West Life Assurance...
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    The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories...
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    explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States (18 miles (29 km) north of Waco), while emergency...
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  • North-West Europe 1944–1945 is a battle honour (more properly known as an honorary distinction) earned by regiments of the British Commonwealth forces...
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    Diamond Bus (North West) Ltd., trading as Diamond North West, is a bus operator providing services in the districts of Bolton and Wigan in Greater Manchester...
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    river route to the Pacific for the extension of the North American fur trade (the North West Company). Sir Alexander Mackenzie led the first starting out...
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