As the head of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department, George Simpson understood American settlers followed missionaries who followed fur trappers. Seeing his Columbia territory as rightly Bri ...

The Hudson’s Bay Company is closing all but six stores in Canada, but its building on Stephen Avenue in downtown Calgary leaves a landmark of its legacy.

When the Hudson’s Bay Company steamship Beaver arrived in Victoria’s Inner Harbour, the Lekwungen assisted with the fort's ...

Point blankets were used by European settlers and explorers to barter for furs with Indigenous peoples in today’s Canada as ...

Shoppers have rushed to buy Hudson’s Bay point blankets after the company ... During the peak of the fur trade, one point was equal in value to one beaver pelt. The company’s blankets were ...

TORONTO — The death knell is ringing for Canada’s oldest company. Hudson’s Bay announced Friday night that unless it finds a more viable path forward, it will begin liquidating its entire business as ...

At left, Mark Bransom, chief executive of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation ... dismemberment. He led a beaver-trapping expedition for the Hudson’s Bay Company, whose 40 or so members ...

If you stepped into Hudson Bay's flagship store in downtown Vancouver this week, you would have found all elevators and escalators completely out of service. Even the stationary escalators were ...

Bown is the author of The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire, which won the 2021 ... the Mandan villages of the Upper Missouri River, where they were introduced to trade ...