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North West Company
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a fur-trading syndicate with its headquarters at Montreal, organized between 1775 and 1783 and absorbed by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.
Quotations
1788
A request from the Northwest Company for a grant of land one acre in width from Lake Superior to Long Lake.
1807
Without resorting to the usual frauds of promises never intended to be fulfilled, the North West Company has explored an immense region, and penetrated even to the Pacific Ocean.
1891
If potlatching and old-fashioned dancing did not at once fall into desuetude, it was because both were countenanced by the North-West Company and, later on, the Hudson Bay Company.
1963
The pooling of interests in the north-west was accompanied by similar combinations at Montreal, and by