Gentlemen Adventurers

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a common misnomer of the Hudson's Bay Company, "The Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay."

Quotations

1934

. . . a Hudson's Bay man to push even his own brother to the wall if he happened to be trading in opposition to the "Gentlemen Adventurers."

1958

He was in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company, the Gentleman Adventurers trading into Rupert's Land.