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The Great Company
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This edition features
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• linked Footnotes
The Great Company
Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants-adventurers Trading into Hudson's Bay
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I.—1660-1667.
Effect of the Restoration on Trade—Adventurers at Whitehall—The East India Company Monopoly—English Interest in North America—Prince Rupert's Claims—The Fur Trade of Canada—Aim of the Work.
CHAPTER II.—1659-1666.
Groseilliers and Radisson—Their Peregrinations in the North-West—They Return to Quebec and Lay their Scheme before the Governor—Repulsed by him they Proceed to New England—And thence Sail for France, where they Endeavour to Interest M. Colbert.
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CHAPTER XXXVI.—1821-1871.
The Company still King in the North-West—Its Forts Described—Fort Garry—Fort Vancouver—Franklin—Walla Walla—Yukon—Kamloops—Samuel Black—Mountain House—Fort Pitt—Policy of the Great Company.
The Hudson's Bay Posts.
APPENDIX.
Royal Charter Incorporating the Hudson's Bay Company
The Alaska Boundary
Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
Deputy-Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
• illustrations
• linked Footnotes
The Great Company
Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants-adventurers Trading into Hudson's Bay
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I.—1660-1667.
Effect of the Restoration on Trade—Adventurers at Whitehall—The East India Company Monopoly—English Interest in North America—Prince Rupert's Claims—The Fur Trade of Canada—Aim of the Work.
CHAPTER II.—1659-1666.
Groseilliers and Radisson—Their Peregrinations in the North-West—They Return to Quebec and Lay their Scheme before the Governor—Repulsed by him they Proceed to New England—And thence Sail for France, where they Endeavour to Interest M. Colbert.
...
CHAPTER XXXVI.—1821-1871.
The Company still King in the North-West—Its Forts Described—Fort Garry—Fort Vancouver—Franklin—Walla Walla—Yukon—Kamloops—Samuel Black—Mountain House—Fort Pitt—Policy of the Great Company.
The Hudson's Bay Posts.
APPENDIX.
Royal Charter Incorporating the Hudson's Bay Company
The Alaska Boundary
Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
Deputy-Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
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