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The North West Company has a rich enterprising legacy as one of the longest continuing retail enterprises in the world. The company traces its roots back to 1668 with many of our store locations in Northern Canada and Alaska having been in operation for over 200 years. Learn more >.
The North West Company is a leading retailer to underserved rural communities and urban neighbourhood markets in the following regions: Northern Canada, Western Canada, rural Alaska, the South Pacific islands and the Caribbean.
The North West Company is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories, as well as the US states of Alaska, Hawaii, and several other countries and US territories in Oceania and the Caribbean.
The North West Company. 77 Main Street. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canada R3C 1A3. (204) 943-0881.
The North West Company Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a leading retailer of food and everyday products and services to rural communities and urban neighbourhoods in Canada, Alaska, the...
Oct 18, 2013 · They were soon doing a thriving business with First Nations in the upper Great Lakes and adjacent regions to the west. In an attempt to control competition and raise capital, on 24 April 1779, some of these companies joined together to form the North West Company.
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.
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. The North West Company, HBC’s main competitor during the fur trade, was formed in 1779 by a group of Montreal-based traders. The history of conflict between the two companies, which erupted in violence, was finally resolved with a merger in 1821. Independent Trader in Rupert's Land.
The Fisher River Cree Nation were among the hundreds of Cree who began trading at Norway House—the administrative centre for Rupert’s Land—the watershed stretching from Hudson Bay to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains and trading hub of Hudson's Bay Company.
