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The demise of the Hudson’s Bay Company is nearly as interesting as its 355-year history. The large Canadian retailer has closed for good, shuttering 80 department stores that long have been ...
England’s King Charles II granted a Royal Charter to the company in 1670. Then, it was officially known as the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson’s Bay.
The charter, Ms. Weir said, established Hudson’s Bay as much more than just a fur trading operation, noting that the company had made some of the first treaties with Indigenous people in what ...
The company’s name and intellectual properties were sold in bankruptcy to another large retailer that plans on maintaining the brand.
Hudson’s Bay was “an English company claiming and helping to colonize huge swathes of North America, inhabited by sovereign Indigenous nations,” wrote Melissa Gismondi in Canadian Geographic ...
The Hudson’s Bay stores were long centered in Western Canada, with this outlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba, serving as the company’s head office. Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba ...