North West Company
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada. With great wealth at stake, tensions between the companies increased to the point where several minor armed skirmishes broke out, and the two companies were forced to merge. Although historical references to a North West Company as early as 1770, the first recorded involvement was a 16-share organization formed in 1779. For the next four years, it was ...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada. With great wealth at stake, tensions between the companies increased to the point where several minor armed skirmishes broke out, and the two companies were forced to merge. Although historical references to a North West Company as early as 1770, the first recorded involvement was a 16-share organization formed in 1779. For the next four years, it was little more than a loose association of a few Montreal merchants who discussed how they might break the stranglehold the Hudson's Bay Company held on the North American fur trade.
