The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the largest and oldest corporation in Canada.

2025年1月7日 · Hudson’s Bay Company, corporation that occupies a prominent place in both the economic and the political history of Canada. It was incorporated in England on May 2, 1670, to seek a northwest passage to the Pacific, to occupy the lands adjacent to Hudson Bay, and to carry on commerce with those lands.

2009年4月2日 · The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), chartered 2 May 1670, is the oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandising company in the English -speaking world. HBC was a fur trading business for most of its history, a past that is entwined with the colonization of British North America and the development of Canada.

2020年5月2日 · There are many ways to tell the story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which claimed and traded on some eight million square kilometres of the Earth’s surface, including large parts of Canada and the northwestern United States.

2024年1月2日 · The Hudson’s Bay Company once claimed and traded on two-thirds of modern Canada. Indigenous fur trappers swapped pelts for commodities sourced on the world market, such as tobacco, guns, and wool.

2011年7月24日 · The Hudson's Bay Company, a fur-trading enterprise headquartered in London, began operations on the shores of Hudson Bay in 1670. During the next century and a half, it gradually expanded its network of trading posts west across Canada.

Hudson’s Bay Co., Corporation prominent in Canadian economic and political history. It was incorporated in England (May 2, 1670) to seek the Northwest Passage to the Pacific, to occupy lands adjacent to Hudson Bay, and to carry on commerce.

Hudson Bay Company history involves humble beginnings over 350 years ago. Learn how fur-trading posts became a retail empire.

Company History: Canada's number one department store retailer, Hudson's Bay Company, is also Canada's oldest corporation. On May 2, 1670, King Charles II granted 18 investors a charter incorporating them as the Governor and Company of Adventurers of …

From 1673 to 1864, Hudson's Bay Company built trading posts to help sell fur and trade with Aboriginal people and European businesses. The company expanded along the Hudson and James Bay routes.