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Hudson's Bay Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The charter granted the company a monopoly over the Indian Trade, especially the fur trade, in the region watered by all rivers and streams flowing into Hudson Bay in northern Canada, an area known as Rupert's Land after the first director of the Company, Prince Rupert of the Rhine. |
 | | In 1821, the North West Company of Montreal and the Hudson's Bay Company merged, with a combined territory that was extended by a licence to the North-Western Territory, which reached to the Arctic Ocean on the north and the Pacific Ocean on the west. |
 | | Under the charter forming the Hudson's Bay Company, the company continues to be required to give two elk skins and two fl beaver pelts to the Canadian Monarch, or his or her heirs, whenever they visit an area that was formerly Rupert's Land. |
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