The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence...
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store chain. It is the flagship brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America as well as one of the oldest...
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A Hudson's Bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in British North America, now Canada and the United States...
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in Greenwich, Connecticut. Hudson's Bay Company, the oldest surviving corporation in Canada, founded in 1670 Hudson's Bay (department store), a retail...
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Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in...
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The Hudson's Bay Company, at one time a fur trading business, has operated a large fleet of vessels in its history. "Hudson's Bay Company Archives – Ships'...
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Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1,230,000 km2...
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The flag of the Hudson's Bay Company is used to represent the Hudson's Bay Company. The flag varied over time. From July 21, 1682, to 1965, the flag consisted...
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Hudson's Bay Trading Company, L.P. was an American portfolio company for NRDC Equity Partners, a private equity company. Hudson's Bay Trading Company...
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is debate about the origin of Hudson's Hope's name. One theory derives the word "Hudson's" from the Hudson's Bay Company and "Hope" from the Scottish word...
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program A new year, a new 3-tiered rewards program for Hudson's Bay Company shoppers "Hudson's Bay and Neo Financial Announce Strategic Partnership That...
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Connecticut. The firm has no relation to Canada's more well-known Hudson's Bay Company. In 1997, Sander Gerber, an equity options trader at American Stock...
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during its early history, but the flag of the Hudson's Bay Company continued to be used at that company's forts, stores and other establishments. The Legislative...
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Rupert's Land (redirect from Hudson Bay Territory)
comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The right to "sole trade and commerce" over Rupert's Land was granted to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), based...
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States. The Hudson Bay drainage basin coincides almost completely with the former territory of Rupert's Land, claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 17th...
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Pig War (1859) (redirect from Charles Griffin (Hudson's Bay Company))
Juan Islands. During this period of disputed sovereignty, Britain's Hudson's Bay Company established operations on San Juan and turned the island into a sheep...
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the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821. The enterprise continued as the Fur Trade Department, and then the Northern Stores Division of Hudson's Bay Company. In...
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called the Hudson's Bay Marland Oil Company (HBMOC), it was founded as a joint venture between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Marland Oil Company with the...
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lead to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company. In Canada, the film was heavily promoted by the Hudson's Bay Company through its retail stores. A trapper...
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Oregon Country (section Hudson's Bay Company)
many vessels between the 1790s and 1810s coming from Boston. The Hudson's Bay Company, whose Columbia Department comprised most of the Oregon Country and...
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The Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail, sometimes referred to simply as the Brigade Trail, refers to one of two routes used by Hudson's Bay Company fur traders...
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Factory, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company. During King William's War, France several times sent forces to Hudson Bay to capture or destroy the fort...
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Dominion Land Survey (section Hudson's Bay Company)
part of Canada, following the purchase of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company. Covering about 800,000 square kilometres (310,000 sq mi), the survey...
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Hudson's Bay Queen Street is a building complex on the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Queen Street West in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It...
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1821 to 1846, the Hudson's Bay Company twice annually used the York Factory Express overland trade route from Fort Vancouver to Hudson Bay and then on to...
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This is a list of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts. For the fur trade in general see North American fur trade and Canadian canoe routes (early). For...
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region. Turner and LeLand stayed behind and Turner joined up with Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) to guide trapping forays into California. In 1832, while accompanying...
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Royal West Indian Company 1670 Hudson's Bay Company 1672 Royal African Company 1691 Hollow Sword Blade Company 1693 Greenland Company 1694 Bank of England...
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James Scarborough of the Hudson's Bay Company. It was changed to Neah in 1847 by Captain Henry Kellett. Kellett spelled it "Neeah Bay". The name "Neah" refers...
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Columbia District (category Hudson's Bay Company)
West Company between 1793 and 1811, and established as an operating fur district around 1810. The North West Company was absorbed into the Hudson's Bay Company...
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