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First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. xii, 13-396, [6] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Bookplate on fep verso. Pencil notation on back of Frontis illustration, which has left a light impression on the title page, Illustrated endpaper. Foreword, Illustrations. Maps. Nineteen chapters. Nine Appendices (including A Selected Bibliography). Index. Key entries from the Index Beaver Skins, Canadian-Pacific Railway, King Charles II, Charter of 1670, Arthur Dobbs, Thomas Douglas, Nicholas Garry, Groseilliers, Henry Kelsey, James Knight, Alexander Mackenzie, North West Company, Pierre Radisson, and George Simpson. The Hudson's Bay Company was a fur trading business for much of its existence. After incorporation by English royal charter in 1670, the company functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America for nearly 200 years until the HBC sold the land it owned (the entire Hudson Bay drainage basin, known as Rupert's Land) to Canada in 1869 as part of the Deed of Surrender, authorized by the Rupert's Land Act 1868. A royal charter from King Charles II incorporated "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay" on 2 May 1670.]

Author

Maps by R. H. H. Macaulay

Publisher

Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780836954302

Subjects

History, Humanities