Hudson's Bay Company - Wikipedia
网页History. 17th century. Rupert's Land, an area that encompasses the drainage basin of the Hudson Bay. For much of the 17th century, the French colonists in North America, based in New France, operated a de facto monopoly in the North American fur trade.
Hudson’s Bay Company | History & Facts | Britannica Money
网页Hudson’s Bay Company, corporation that occupies a prominent place in both the economic and the political history of Canada. It was incorporated in England on May 2, 1670, to seek a northwest passage to the Pacific, to occupy the lands adjacent to Hudson Bay, and to carry on commerce with those lands.
Hudson's Bay Company - The Canadian Encyclopedia
网页2009年4月2日 · The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), chartered 2 May 1670, is the oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandising company in the English-speaking world. HBC was a fur trading business for most of its history, a past that is entwined with the colonization of British North America and the development of Canada.
A Brief History of HBC - HBC Heritage
网页The history of Hudson’s Bay Company is the story of North America’s oldest company, but it's more than that. HBC’s history brings to light the entangled stories of the many individuals, families, and communities that helped shape, and were shaped by, colonial structures of power and global markets.
The untold story of the Hudson’s Bay Company - Canadian …
网页2020年5月2日 · There are many ways to tell the story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which claimed and traded on some eight million square kilometres of the Earth’s surface, including large parts of Canada and the northwestern United States.
Hudson's Bay Company - HistoryLink.org
网页2011年7月24日 · The Hudson's Bay Company, a fur-trading enterprise headquartered in London, began operations on the shores of Hudson Bay in 1670. During the next century and a half, it gradually expanded its network of trading posts west across Canada.
Hudsons Bay Company | Encyclopedia.com
网页2018年5月14日 · Canada's number one department store retailer, Hudson's Bay Company is also Canada's oldest corporation and one of the oldest in the world. On May 2, 1670, King Charles II granted 18 investors a charter incorporating them as the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay.
Hudson’s Bay Company (Plain-Language Summary)
网页2022年6月10日 · The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) was founded in 1670. It is Canada’s oldest company. It started as a fur trading company. Much later, it got involved in retail. It owns 239 department stores in Canada and the United States.
Hudson's Bay Company -- Company History
网页Hudson's Bay Company acquired Markborough Properties, a real estate company, in 1973; Zellers, a chain of discount department stores, in 1978; and Simpsons, a group of Toronto-area department stores, the following year.
Hudson Bay Company History: From Formation to the Modern Day
网页Hudson’s Bay Company is the oldest company in North America, currently celebrating over 350 years of business. Read on to learn how this institution began as fur-trading posts and evolved into the institution that remains to this day.