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| | Gustavus Myers, A History of Canadian Wealth, ch 9 |
 | | The £20,000,000 sterling that the fur trade had yielded to British capitalists was distributed among a noted array of titled aristocrats, church prelates and clergymen, politicians, merchants and others. |
 | | On the list of the Hudsons Bay Companys stockholders in or about 1856, appeared the names of the Earl of Selkirk, Countess Lydia Cavan, Baron Wynford, Viscount Folkestone, Sir George Sinclair, Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bishop John Banks Jenkinson, Rev. Oswald Littleton Chambers, the Ellice family and scores of other notables. |
 | | It has been estimated that at least one-half of the revenues of the stockholders of the Hudsons Bay Company have come back to Canada for investment. |
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