DCHP-3

New Company

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a Montreal-based fur company formed in 1798 by disaffected Northwesters and absorbed by the North West Company in 1804, so called because its packs were labelled XY to keep them distinct from those of its competitor, which were marked N.W.

See: Old Company(See 1935 quote at def. 2),X.Y. Company,New North West Company

Quotations

1801
Told them [Indians] to take all their provisions to the New Co. as we have got a sufficiency. . . .