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THE COMPANY
The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
An extraordinary tale spanning two centuries, full of harrowing exploration and political maneuvering.
The Hudson's Bay Company is one of the great enterprises that transformed North America. The Company's genesis, in 1670, was as a small business with bases along western Hudson Bay, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of what is now inland sub-arctic Canada. But it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the misty cedar forests of the Pacific Northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of most of the powerful Indigenous groups from Montreal to the Columbia River on the Pacific, and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America (including the U.S. states of North Dakota, Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon). No other corporation exerted control over more of the earth's land area than the Company.
Fur was the primary economic driver for this territorial exploration and political and cultural division of North America. But the story isn't merely one of corporate wealth accumulation. It also encompasses the incredible personal adventures of dozens of the most famous travelers and explorers and also tells the dramatic story of the French traders from Montreal who grappled for supremacy with the British Company over the generations and across the continent. Enthusiastically commissioned by Doubleday Canada, The Company explores perhaps the most important story in the history of Canada. But it's also a big British, French, and North American story; indeed, an epic of world history.
STEPHEN BOWN has written ten books on the history of science, exploration, and ideas. They have been published in multiple English-speaking territories, translated into nine languages, and shortlisted for many awards. Bown has won the B.C. Book Prize, the Alberta Book Award, the William Mills Prize for Polar Books, and his most recent book, Island of the Blue Foxes, was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize. He has a longstanding interest in the fur trade and has embarked on several wilderness journeys retracing the overland mountain treks of George Simpson and David Thompson. He lives near Banff, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies.
Fur was the primary economic driver for this territorial exploration and political and cultural division of North America. But the story isn't merely one of corporate wealth accumulation. It also encompasses the incredible personal adventures of dozens of the most famous travelers and explorers and also tells the dramatic story of the French traders from Montreal who grappled for supremacy with the British Company over the generations and across the continent. Enthusiastically commissioned by Doubleday Canada, The Company explores perhaps the most important story in the history of Canada. But it's also a big British, French, and North American story; indeed, an epic of world history.
STEPHEN BOWN has written ten books on the history of science, exploration, and ideas. They have been published in multiple English-speaking territories, translated into nine languages, and shortlisted for many awards. Bown has won the B.C. Book Prize, the Alberta Book Award, the William Mills Prize for Polar Books, and his most recent book, Island of the Blue Foxes, was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize. He has a longstanding interest in the fur trade and has embarked on several wilderness journeys retracing the overland mountain treks of George Simpson and David Thompson. He lives near Banff, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies.
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