The HBC

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The hudson bay company

• Matt C, Gurjeevan, Alex, Jared

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What was it??????

• The HBC was founded in 1670
• After Pierre Radission and Médart Groseillers
  successful journey to the wilderness region
  beyond New France.
• A very BIG competition to the NWC
• They were mainly located
• around the Hudson Bay and
• extended to the middle of todays
• British Columbia, Inside Rupert's
• Land.
• The HBC received its Royal
• Charter from the king, which gave it
• exclusive trading rights.

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What was it????? (cont.)

• They merged with the NWC in 1821 due to financial
  problems with both companies.
• The HBC forbade its employees to get married
  because they believed that they would have to
  support more dependents.
• The employees were
• salary paid.

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Where were they?
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Where?

• Located around the Hudson Bay
• King Charles II claimed the area around the
  Hudsons Bay and named it after his cousin Prince
  Rupert
• They had their trading posts at the mouths of the
  rivers emptying into the Hudsons Bay
• This encouraged the Assiniboin, Cree and Ojibwa
  trappers and traders to bring their furs
• The Bay also was frozen for most of the winter

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Where? (cont.)

• They had many locations
• Chesterfield Inlet
• Churchill factory
• Prince of Whales Fort
• York Factory
• By the 1750s the French-Canadian fur traders had
  moved deeper inland
• Due to the Stay by the bay policy, made the posts
  inaccesible

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• Here is the HBC post in Lake Winnipeg

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What do they do??
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What?

• They traded animal furs, Beaver being their main
• Any fur brought to trade was compared to the
  Beaver, and this was how the value was determined
• Their standards were very strict, so there was no
  bargaining
• 1763, they started to hand out blankets that had
  diseases in them
• They did this to wipe out the Native Communities

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• Here is an example of a Beaver Pelt

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• Here is a blanket from the HBC

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When did things happen?
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When?

• HBC was founded in 1670
• 1810- the Metis community thrives in the Red
  River Valley from the NWC
• 1814- the Pemmican Proclamation was put in place,
  which disabled the Metis from making profit
• 1821- the HBC and NWC
• merge into one company called
• the Hudson Bay Company

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