Hudson's Bay Company
Canadian trading monopoly
Hudson's Bay Company is a Canadian retail corporation, originally a fur trading enterprise chartered in 1670.
It is one of the oldest commercial corporations in the world.
The company once controlled vast territories in North America, governing much of what became western and northern Canada.
Today it operates department stores, though its historical role in colonization and the fur trade remains central to its identity: The Hudson's Bay Company established trading posts across the Canadian wilderness.
- trading postsFrontier merchandise exchange stations
- CanadaNorthern North American nation
- beaver peltsProcessed rodent hides
- beaver hatHat from rodent fur
- fur tradeCommercial exchange of animal skins
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