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The Great Company: Being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants-Adventurers Trading Into Hudson's Bay (Classic Reprint)
The Great Company Being a History of the Honourable Company of MerchantsAdventurers Trading Into Hudson's Bay - Classic Reprint Author:Beckles Willson PREFACE. RAISEWORTHY as the task is of unifying the scat- j[ tercd elements of our Canadian story, yet it will hardly be maintained that such historical studies ought not to-be preceded by others of a more elementary character-Herein, then, are chronicled the annals of an institution, coherent and compact-an isolated unit. The Hudson's Bay Compa... more »ny witnessed the French dominion' in Northamerica rise to its extreme height, decline and disappear ; it saw new colonics planted by Britain ; it saw them-quarrel with the parent State, and themselves become transformed into States. Wars came and passed-European! Powers on this continent waxed and waned, rose and faded away ; remote forests were invaded by loyal subjects who erected the wilderness into opulent provinces. Change, unceasing, never-ending change, has marked the history of this hemisphere of ours ; yet there is one force, one institution, which survived nearly all conditions and all rigimes.. For two full centuries the Hudson'
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1-16Gc-IIJ67; paOa; Effect of the Re~toration on Trade-Adventurers at 'Vhitehall-The Ea~t; India Company MOl1oVI)'y-Enl:!li~h IlIteiest in l'onh America-Prince; Rupert's Cbims-The Fur Trade of Canada-Aim of the Work • 17; CHAPTER 11-1659-1666; Grol'eiHiers and Ratli:;~on-Their Peregrinations in the North-West-They; ketum 10 Quebec :lnd Lay their Schelin: IlCrore the GoveTlior-Repulst!CI; by him they Procee,' to New En~larlI-Aml thence Sail (or }« less