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Old Company
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the popular and traditional name of the Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, chartered by Charles II in 1670.
See: Hudson's Bay Company
Quotations
1900
"What does 'H.B.C.' mean? Returned the native grimly: "That's the old Company, Here before Christ."
1909
No man or woman can travel with any degree of comfort throughout Northwest America except under the kindly aegis of the Old Company.
1953
The Hudson's Bay Company--"the old Company"--had outposts only at Kapisakau and Attawapiskat, none further north.
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See quote.
Quotations
1935
This was the period [1804] when the XY, or "New Company," was being absorbed by the "Old Company," from which it had broken off, and both became the North West Company.