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	northwestcompany
		At an early date signs of concentration among the fur-traders in the far North West were apparent; and in 1775 Alexander Henry describes a pool or merger of interests on the Saskatchewan.
		After a severe contest, the XY Company was in 1804 absorbed in the North West Company, and was given a quarter interest in the new concern, which was reorganized on the basis of one hundred shares.
		The Hudson's Bay Company invaded areas, such as the Athabaska country, which they had hitherto left to the Nor'Westers; and the Nor' Westers devoted all their energies to the prosecution of the struggle with the Hudson's Bay men, instead of to the prosecution of the fur-trade.
	faculty.marianopolis.edu /c.belanger/QuebecHistory/encyclopedia/northwestcompany.htm (665 words)

	North West Company. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The younger company, meanwhile, was split by dissension, brought on chiefly by the hostility between two important figures in the company, McTavish and Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
		The Southwest Company, established in 1811, was practically, although not actually, a combination of Astor and North West Company interests; this association was disrupted by the War of 1812.
		In the united company, however, the personnel was predominantly of the Northwestern stamp, and the spirit of the company was that of the vigorous North West Company.
	www.bartleby.com /65/nw/NWCo.html (766 words)

	North West Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1783, the North West Company was officially created, with its corporate offices on Vaudreuil Street in Montreal and led by businessmen Benjamin Frobisher, Peter Pond, and Simon McTavish, along with investor-partners who included Isaac Todd, Robert Grant, Nicholas Montour, Patrick Small, William Holmes and Frobisher's brothers, Thomas, and Joseph.
		The destruction of the North West Company post at Sault Sainte Marie by the Americans during the War of 1812 was a serious blow during an already difficult time.
		However, the continued existence of the North West Company was in great doubt, and shareholders had no choice but to agree to a merger with their hated rival after Henry Bathurst, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, ordered the companies to cease hostilities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_West_Company (1894 words)

	North West Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		North West Company, a major force in the FUR TRADE from the 1780s to 1821.
		In EXPLORATION, the NWC kept the upper hand, with Duncan McGillivray, David THOMPSON and Simon FRASER crossing the Rocky Mountains and the latter 2 reaching the Pacific.
		In June 1819, 7 NWC partners and numerous men were seized by a HBC force under William Williams, the new governor in chief of RUPERT'S LAND, at the Grand Rapid of the Saskatchewan River.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005800 (1097 words)

	Encyclopedia: North West Company
		The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) TSX: HBC is the oldest corporation in Canada (and the second oldest in North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence.
		The North West Company-Mapping the Northwest-18th Century-Pathfinders and Passageways
		The result of their negotiations was the North West Company (NWC), a shifting partnership of Montreal merchants and inland traders.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/North-West-Company (567 words)

	North West Company
		North West Company: Formation - Formation After the conquest of Canada by the British, which was formalized by the Treaty of Paris...
		Hudson's Bay Company: Rivalry with the North West Company - Rivalry with the North West Company With the transfer of Canada from France to England by the...
		North West Company: Competition with the Hudson's Bay Company - Competition with the Hudson's Bay Company The traders were, for the most part, active and...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0836030.html (160 words)

	North West Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Attempts were made to have the British Parliament change things, in particular to at least obtain transit rights for the company to ship the goods needed for trading for furs to the West.
		The North West Company branch in New York City had allowed the Canadians to get around the British East India Company's monopoly and ship furs to the Chinese market.
		The form of nepotism within the company too had changed, from the strict values of Simon McTavish to something that now was harming the business in both its costs and morale of others.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_West_Company (1894 words)

	North West Company
		The North West Company (NWC) was a fur-trading enterprise based in Montreal and active in the Canadian West from the 1770s until 1821.
		The era of the North West Company was one of the most colourful in Canadian history.
		The NWC soon emerged as the dominant fur-trade enterprise in Montreal and the trade became a rivalry between the Nor'Westers and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), based to the north in Hudson Bay.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0005800 (547 words)

	North West Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The North West Company was a major fur trading firm from about 1783 until 1821 formed by a combination of Scottish immigrants to Lower Canada and the French fur traders who had already spread widely the west of what is now Canada.
		In 1802 Alexander Mackenzie gained control of this company but McTavish died in 1804 Mackenzie and his partners re-joined the West Company.
		The Nor'westers were aggressive traders and started on the areas in the north controlled the Hudson's Bay Company even before their company had officially formed.
	www.freeglossary.com /Northwest_Company (684 words)

	North West Company on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NORTH WEST COMPANY [North West Company] fur-trading organization in North America in the late 18th and early 19th cent.; it was composed of Montreal trading firms and fur traders.
		To the North West Company is due some of the glory of Mackenzie's earlier voyages to the Arctic (1789) and Pacific (1792-93) oceans.
		The North West Company and North West Company Fund announce effective date of plan of arrangement.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NW1C1o.asp (1380 words)

	The Fur Trade ... The Hudson's Bay and NorthWest Companies
		Expansion in the west followed a distinct pattern: the NorthWest Company would build an inland trading post, and the Hudson's Bay Company would follow building their fort adjacent to the NorthWest Company's.
		The NorthWest Company was based in Montreal: twice the distance from the far west and the rich Athabasca country than The Hudson's Bay Company.
		The Hudson's Bay Company was the established authority in the Northwest and set up the Council of Rupert's Land and the Council of Assiniboia as the appointed governments of the region.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Atrium/4832/hudson3.html (1000 words)

	MHS Centennial Business: The North West Company
		The exact date that the North West Company began operations in what is now Manitoba is not as easily determined because few of the early records have survived.
		The name "North West Company" first described a group of Montreal traders who pooled resources in 1776 to reduce competition and to resist the inland advances of the Hudson's Bay Company.
		In 1821, after thirty-five years of conflict, the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company united and their two histories were one until the Hudson's Bay Company sold off its Northern Stores and The North West Company was re-incorporated in April 1987.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/business/northwestco.shtml (201 words)

	The North West Company & the Hudson's Bay Company Rivalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company Rivalry
		Though both were under the British Crown, the North West Company did not recognize the monopoly claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company in "Rupert's Land", (now western Canada) and the Hudson's Bay Company had no way to enforce it.
		The North West trade route began in Montreal and proceeded along the Ontario-Minnesota border waters to the Lake of the Woods, down the Winnipeg River to Lake Winnipeg following the river system to the far North West.
	www.goldiproductions.com /first_peoples/fp24_nwco.html (667 words)

	Festival of Adventures & Wm. Aitkin Fur Trade Rendezvous - Aitkin Minnesota
		The region west of the Mississippi that was not already part of American territory, was purchased from France in the Louisiana Purchase in 1804.
		The North West Company have made establishments at several places on the south side of Lake Superior, and on the head waters of the Sauteaux and St. Croix, which discharge into the Mississippi.
		The North West Company were pressed to relinquish their hold on the fur trade in this region and soon were replaced by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company.
	www.aitkin.com /fest/nwc.htm (618 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - North West Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		North West Company, the company of fur traders set up in opposition to the Hudson's Bay Company.
		North West Passage, sea route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean via the marine waterways of northern Canada and the coastal waters off...
		In 1602 the Dutch parliament granted the Dutch East India Company a charter giving it a trading monopoly with all countries east of the Cape of Good...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /North_West_Company.html (165 words)

	David Thompson Canadian Explorer Mapmaker History Pictures
		The North West Company map prepared by David Thompson covered an area of two million three hundred and forty thousand square miles from Lake Superior and Hudson Bay to the mouth of the Columbia River.
		Thompson’s first assignment was to determine the longitude and latitude of the North West Company posts that might be affected by the Jay Treaty of 1794.
		Because the river flowed north, Thompson was not sure that it was the Columbia…from its source at Columbia Lake, the Columbia River flows five hundred miles north along the base of the Canadian Rocky Mountains before it turns south and west to the Pacific Ocean.
	www.thefurtrapper.com /david_thompson.htm (3061 words)

	History of the North West Company Fur Post
		By the 1790s, the Montreal based North West Company had extended its fur trade network from the St. Lawrence River valley to beyond the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
		Today, the North West Company Fur Post, a reconstruction of John Sayer's post, is owned and operated by the Minnesota Historical Society.
		Surrounding the rowhouse is a palisade, measuring 100 feet by 61 feet, with defensive bastions in the north and south corners.
	www.mnhs.org /places/sites/nwcfp/site.html (645 words)

	North West Company -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The company was founded in 1783 and enjoyed a rapid growth.
		It originally confined its operations to the Lake Superior region and the valleys of the Red, Assiniboine, and Saskatchewan rivers but later spread north and west to the shores of the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
		Dutch trading company, founded in 1621 mainly to carry on economic warfare against Spain and Portugal by striking at their colonies in the West Indies and South America and on the west coast of Africa.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056227 (904 words)

	Deline North West Company Dominance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For 30 years after Mackenzie's voyage the North West Company controlled the District, building posts along the Mackenzie River, and each summer, moving the furs to Montreal by a lengthy canoe route.
		In 1799 a rival group, referred to as the XY Company, because of the mark used on its bales of furs, started to trade in the same area.
		There was intense competition between the two and in the winter of 1804, the master of the North West Company post at Great Bear Lake was shot by an XY Company employee during a quarrel.
	www.deline.ca /community/explorers/northwest_company.html (236 words)

	Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company - Stories
		The North West Company was formed in 1783 by fur traders from Montreal.
		Hudson's Bay Company faced fierce competition from the North West Company.
		Soon both companies sent out people to explore and find new sources of fur.
	www.canadiana.org /hbc/stories/nwco1_e.html (143 words)

	Interview with Edward S. Kennedy, The North West Company.: TWST
		Kennedy: The Northwest Company was spun-off from the Hudson Bay Company through a leveraged buy-out in 1987.
		The Hudson's Bay Company was and still is a national retailer in Canada with two principal formats - discount merchandising and department stores.
		North West operated as the smaller Northern Stores Division of the Hudson's Bay Company and was made up of retail stores serving remote areas of Northern Canada.
	www.twst.com /notes/articles/han643.html (648 words)

	StockHouse Canada -- News --
		The North West Company and Giant Tiger have a 30-year Master Franchise Agreement which grants NWC the exclusive right to open and operate 72 Giant Tiger stores in western Canada.
		The North West Company Inc. is a leading retailer of food and everyday products and services to rural communities and urban neighborhoods across Canada and Alaska.
		The units of the North West Company Fund trade on the TSX Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "NWF.UN".
	www.stockhouse.ca /news/news.asp?tick=NWF.UN&newsid=3406718 (711 words)

	The North West Company-Mapping the Northwest-18th Century-Pathfinders and Passageways
		The thirst for furs led the Nor'westers to the country around Athabasca Lake, and their arrival there was followed by a series of explorations by Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and David Thompson that carried NWC trade across the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the Pacific Coast.
		For a time it seemed that the NWC would prevail against its greatest rival, the Hudson's Bay Company, for dominance in the fur trade.
		For half a century the NWC battled the Hudson's Bay Company for supremacy in the fur trade.
	www.nlc-bnc.ca /2/24/h24-1601-e.html (549 words)

	From Merry Monarch to Jerry Zucker: a long, strange trip for Hudson's Bay Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its monopoly was contested by outside competitors, notably the North West Company, which merged with the Hudson's Bay Co. in 1821.
		In return, the company received 300,000 pounds in cash and about five per cent of the land suitable for farming in what now is Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
		The company expanded its retail operations organically and through acquisitions - of the Morgan's department stores in Eastern Canada in 1960, the Zellers discount chain in 1978, Simpsons stores in 1979, the Towers group in 1990, Woodward's department stores in B.C. and Alberta in 1993, and Kmart Canada in 1998.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/business/060126/b0126156.html (635 words)

	North West Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An internal quarrel leading, in 1799, to the creation of a third company, the New North West Company (also called the XY Company), weakened its position.
		This latest company would not last long -- it was merged into the North West Company in 1804.
		The North West Company differed from the HBC in its active exploration of the territory as well as in its regular use of Canadian employees who knew the territory well.
	www.mts.net /~dkapchin/nwc.html (268 words)

	ipedia.com: North West Company Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The North West Company was a major fur trading firm from about 1783 until 1821, formed by a combination of Scottish immigrants to Lower Canada and the French fur traders who had already spread widely...
		In 1763 the French ceded control of their North American colonies to England in the Treaty of Paris.
		This caused serious political problems in England, eventually causing the government to force the two companies to merge in 1821.
	www.ipedia.com /north_west_company.html (487 words)

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