Founded in 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company became the largest fur trading company in North ... In good years, native trappers and hunters would unload more than 100,000 animal pelts at Hudson's ...

In the decade after 1750, competition in the North American fur trade was heating up ... (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) The Hudson's Bay Company and its main rival The North West ...

Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.