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Jun 6, 2007 · Founded in 1779, the North West Company was a major force in the fur trade from the 1780s to 1821. Managed primarily by Highland Scots who migrated to Montréal after 1760, or came as Loyalists escaping the American Revolution, it also drew heavily on French-Canadian labour and experience.
The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in the regions that later became Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario.
Oct 18, 2013 · In the 40-year history of the North West Company, the fur trade came to encompass nearly the whole of northern North America. As it did so, the problems of transportation and supply became increasingly acute.
North West Company, Canadian fur-trading company, once the chief rival of the powerful Hudson’s Bay Company. The company was founded in 1783 and enjoyed a rapid growth.
After the conquest of New France by the British in 1763, French traders founded the North West Company and continued expanding their fur trade into the Canadian interior. The competition with the Hudson's Bay Company led to a massive environmental impact with numerous fur trade posts being built, the interior of Canada being explored, and the ...
Within 25 years of its foundation, the NWC would capture 78 per cent of the Canadian fur trade. These Montreal merchants and backwoods traders would spoil the Hudson's Bay Company's century-old...
Oct 1, 2001 · From 1793 to 1821, the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company were locked in a bitter struggle for supremacy. In the course of this struggle, the Rainy Lake Region acquired strategic importance beyond its value for furs.
