Canada's Contribution To The Development Of The Hudson Bay

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We have many trading posts that are strategically situated on the west side of the Hudson for your convenience. Our great explorers Radisson and des Groseilliers have sourced out the finest quality furs and charted a northern trade route through Hudson Bay. Through their extensive travels, not only are they founders of the Hudson’s Bay Company, they and this great company have contributed to the development of the Canada we know today. We do not worry about what the French and Americans are doing with trade to the south of us because we have the endorsement of King Charles II who has granted us the Royal Charter which grants us the lands of the Hudson Bay watershed to “the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson Bay.”

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