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Great Southwest - Big Muddy
Big Muddy Badlands are an amazing spectacle of nature's architecture, and in the heart of it all is Castle Butte, a relic from the ice age.
The whole area is full of surprises, including the Shurniak Art Gallery in Assiniboia, home to world class art collections, and the Tunnels of Moose Jaw, located underground in Moose Jaw's historic downtown district.
Castle Butte is located 24 km southwest of Bengough, 110 km southeast of Assiniboia and 170 km south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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Dragon Boat Festival Manitoba - 2019
The Dragon Boat Festival is held each year at Red River besides the historic site The Forks National Historic Site. We we lucky enough to get the glimpse of it.
History of Regina, Saskatchewan
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Summer programs affected by Agincourt Rec Centre fire
Repairs are underway at the Agincourt Rec Centre after a massive fire just over a month ago. Maleeha Sheikh with how the construction is affecting spring and summer recreation programs, which have to be moved to other locations.
Residential School Hockey
Edmonton Oilers honor First Nations hockey. Distinguished former players Fred Sasakamoose, Ted Hodgson, and Chief Wilton Littlechild oversee the ceremonial puck drop. A former Chicago Black Hawk, Fred Sasakamoose talks about life in Residential School and the National Hockey League during the 1950s. A trio of First Nations and metis women, the Asani Singers, sing an enchanting version of the Canadian national anthem to a packed Rexall Place.
Manitoba | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:14 1 Etymology
00:03:10 2 Geography
00:04:23 2.1 Hydrography and terrain
00:06:50 2.2 Climate
00:09:50 2.3 Flora and fauna
00:12:26 3 History
00:12:35 3.1 First Nations and European settlement
00:15:52 3.2 Confederation
00:19:42 3.3 Modern era
00:24:15 4 Demography
00:27:44 5 Economy
00:30:30 5.1 Economic history
00:31:52 6 Military bases
00:34:58 7 Government and politics
00:38:14 7.1 Official languages
00:40:10 8 Transportation
00:44:05 9 Education
00:46:52 10 Culture
00:47:01 10.1 Arts
00:51:12 10.2 Festivals
00:52:42 10.3 Museums
00:53:59 10.4 Media
00:55:36 10.5 Sports
00:57:52 11 See also
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Manitoba ( (listen)) is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is often considered one of the three prairie provinces (with Alberta and Saskatchewan) and is Canada's fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.3 million people. Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) with a widely varied landscape, stretching from the northern oceanic coastline to the southern border with the United States. The province is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territories of Nunavut to the north, and Northwest Territories to the northwest, and the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.
Aboriginal peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the late 17th century, fur traders arrived on two major river systems, what is now called the Nelson in northern Manitoba and in the southeast along the Winnipeg River system. A Royal Charter in 1670 granted all the lands draining into Hudson's Bay to the British company and they administered trade in what was then called Rupert's Land. During the next 200 years, communities continued to grow and evolve, with a significant settlement of Michif in what is now Winnipeg. The assertion of Métis identity and self-rule culminated in negotiations for the creation of the province of Manitoba. There are many factors that led to an armed uprising of the Métis people against the Government of Canada, a conflict known as the Red River Rebellion aka Resistance. The resolution of the assertion of the right to representation led to the Parliament of Canada passing the Manitoba Act in 1870 that created the province.
Manitoba's capital and largest city, Winnipeg, is the eighth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada. Other census agglomerations in the province are Brandon, Steinbach, Portage la Prairie, and Thompson.
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Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British North America comprising the Hudson Bay drainage basin, a territory in which a commercial monopoly was operated by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870. The area once known as Rupert's Land is now mainly a part of Canada, but a small portion is now in the United States of America. It was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I and the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). In December 1821, the HBC monopoly was extended from Rupert's Land to the Pacific coast.
Areas belonging to Rupert's Land were mostly in present-day Canada and included the whole of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, and northern parts of Ontario and Quebec. It also included present-day United States territory, including parts of the states of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota. The southern border west of Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains was the drainage divide between the Mississippi and Saskatchewan watersheds until the London Convention of 1818 substituted the 49th Parallel.
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00:02:12 1 Etymology
00:03:07 2 Geography
00:04:21 2.1 Hydrography and terrain
00:06:46 2.2 Climate
00:09:45 2.3 Flora and fauna
00:12:20 3 History
00:12:29 3.1 First Nations and European settlement
00:15:43 3.2 Confederation
00:19:30 3.3 Modern era
00:24:01 4 Demography
00:27:28 5 Economy
00:30:42 5.1 Economic history
00:32:03 6 Military bases
00:35:07 7 Government and politics
00:38:21 7.1 Official languages
00:40:16 8 Transportation
00:44:09 9 Education
00:46:53 10 Culture
00:47:02 10.1 Arts
00:51:12 10.2 Festivals
00:52:41 10.3 Museums
00:53:57 10.4 Media
00:55:33 10.5 Sports
00:57:48 11 See also
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Manitoba ( (listen)) is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is often considered one of the three prairie provinces (with Alberta and Saskatchewan) and is Canada's fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.3 million people. Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) with a widely varied landscape, stretching from the northern oceanic coastline to the southern border with the United States. The province is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territories of Nunavut to the north, and Northwest Territories to the northwest, and the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.
Aboriginal peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the late 17th century, fur traders arrived on two major river systems, what is now called the Nelson in northern Manitoba and in the southeast along the Winnipeg River system. A Royal Charter in 1670 granted all the lands draining into Hudson's Bay to the British company and they administered trade in what was then called Rupert's Land. During the next 200 years, communities continued to grow and evolve, with a significant settlement of Michif in what is now Winnipeg. The assertion of Métis identity and self-rule culminated in negotiations for the creation of the province of Manitoba. There are many factors that led to an armed uprising of the Métis people against the Government of Canada, a conflict known as the Red River Rebellion. The resolution of the assertion of the right to representation led to the Parliament of Canada passing the Manitoba Act in 1870 that created the province.
Manitoba's capital and largest city, Winnipeg, is the eighth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada. Other census agglomerations in the province are Brandon, Steinbach, Portage la Prairie, and Thompson.
Winnipeg | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:46 1 History
00:01:55 1.1 Early history
00:06:24 1.2 Modern history (1900–present)
00:10:27 2 Geography
00:12:13 2.1 Climate
00:15:00 2.2 Cityscape
00:17:19 3 Demographics
00:22:00 4 Economy
00:25:17 5 Culture
00:31:11 5.1 Festivals
00:32:10 5.2 Sports
00:35:43 6 Local media
00:36:57 7 Law and government
00:38:27 7.1 Crime
00:40:24 8 Education
00:42:03 9 Infrastructure
00:42:12 9.1 Transportation
00:46:06 9.2 Medical centres and hospitals
00:47:01 9.3 Utilities
00:48:16 10 Military
00:50:14 11 Notable people
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Winnipeg ( (listen)) is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. Centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, it is near the longitudinal centre of North America, approximately 110 kilometres (70 mi) north of the Canada–United States border.
The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for muddy water. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. As of 2011, Winnipeg is the seventh most populated municipality in Canada. Being far inland, the local climate is extremely seasonal even by Canadian standards with average January lows of around −21 °C (−6 °F) and average July highs of 26 °C (79 °F).Known as the Gateway to the West, Winnipeg is a railway and transportation hub with a diversified economy. This multicultural city hosts numerous annual festivals, including the Festival du Voyageur, the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Jazz Winnipeg Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, and Folklorama. Winnipeg was the first Canadian host of the Pan American Games. It is home to several professional sports franchises, including the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Canadian football), the Winnipeg Jets (ice hockey), Manitoba Moose (ice hockey), Valour FC (soccer), and the Winnipeg Goldeyes (baseball).
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Manitoba ( (listen)) is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is often considered one of the three prairie provinces (with Alberta and Saskatchewan) and is Canada's fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.3 million people. Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) with a widely varied landscape, stretching from the northern oceanic coastline to the southern border with the United States. The province is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territories of Nunavut to the north, and Northwest Territories to the northwest, and the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.
Aboriginal peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the late 17th century, fur traders arrived on two major river systems, what is now called the Nelson in northern Manitoba and in the southeast along the Winnipeg River system. A Royal Charter in 1670 granted all the lands draining into Hudson's Bay to the British company and they administered trade in what was then called Rupert's Land. During the next 200 years, communities continued to grow and evolve, with a significant settlement of Michif in what is now Winnipeg. The assertion of Métis identity and self-rule culminated in negotiations for the creation of the province of Manitoba. There are many factors that led to an armed uprising of the Métis people against the Government of Canada, a conflict known as the Red River Rebellion aka Resistance. The resolution of the assertion of the right to representation led to the Parliament of Canada passing the Manitoba Act in 1870 that created the province.
Manitoba's capital and largest city, Winnipeg, is the eighth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada. Other census agglomerations in the province are Brandon, Steinbach, Portage la Prairie, and Thompson.
Hudson's Bay Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:05:20 1 History
00:05:29 1.1 17th century
00:13:51 1.2 18th century
00:16:16 1.3 19th century
00:23:55 1.4 20th century
00:24:04 1.4.1 Department stores and diversification
00:25:35 1.4.2 Oil and gas operations
00:26:41 1.4.3 Retail expansion
00:30:01 1.5 21st century
00:37:21 1.5.1 Takeover of Galeria Kaufhof
00:38:05 2 Operations
00:39:28 2.1 Olympic outfitter
00:42:31 3 Archives
00:44:16 4 Corporate governance
00:44:31 4.1 Corporate hierarchy
00:46:48 4.2 Governors
00:47:00 5 Miscellany
00:47:09 5.1 Rent obligation under charter
00:48:27 5.2 Notable HBC explorers, builders, and associates
00:52:19 5.3 HBC sternwheelers and steamships
00:53:20 5.4 Rivals
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The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada, the United States and parts of Europe, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay, commonly referred to as The Bay (La Baie in French). Other divisions include Galeria Kaufhof, Home Outfitters, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. HBC's head office was in the Simpson Tower in Toronto, but it relocated northwest of Toronto to Brampton, Ontario. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol HBC.
The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay. It functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to some of those territories. It was once the world's largest landowner, controlling the area of the Hudson Bay watershed, known as Rupert's Land, which has 15% of North American acreage. From its long-time headquarters at York Factory on Hudson Bay, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English and later British-controlled North America for several centuries. Undertaking early exploration, its traders and trappers forged relationships with many groups of aboriginal peoples. Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States. In the late 19th century, with its signing of the Deed of Surrender, its vast territory became the largest portion of the newly-formed Dominion of Canada, in which the company was the largest private landowner.
By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling everything from furs to fine homeware. They quickly introduced a new type of client to the HBC – one that shopped for pleasure and not with skins; the retail era had begun as the HBC began establishing stores across the country.In 1863, the International Financial Society bought controlling interest in the HBCo., signalling a shift in the company’s outlook: most of the new shareholders were less interested in the fur trade than in real estate speculation and economic development in the West. The Society floated £2 million in public shares on non-ceded land held ostensibly by the Hudson's Bay Company as an asset and leveraged this asset for collateral for these funds. These funds allowed the Society the financial means to weather the financial collapse of 1866 which destroyed many competitors and invest in railways in North America. Negotiations conducted with the Colonial Office and, after 1867, with the Canadian government, eventually resulted in the sale of Rupert’s Land to Canada in 1870. As part of the agreement, the company received £300,000 and one-twentieth of the fertile areas to be opened for settlement. In addition, it retained title to th ...
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Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British North America comprising the Hudson Bay drainage basin, a territory in which a commercial monopoly was operated by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870. The area once known as Rupert's Land is now mainly a part of Canada, but a small portion is now in the United States of America. It was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I and the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). In December 1821, the HBC monopoly was extended from Rupert's Land to the Pacific coast.
Areas belonging to Rupert's Land were mostly in present-day Canada and included the whole of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, and northern parts of Ontario and Quebec. It also included present-day United States territory, including parts of the states of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota. The southern border west of Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains was the drainage divide between the Mississippi and Saskatchewan watersheds until the London Convention of 1818 substituted the 49th Parallel.
Green Party of Canada candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:24 1 Prince Edward Island
00:00:35 1.1 Sharon Labchuk (Malpeque)
00:01:06 2 Nova Scotia
00:01:15 2.1 Chris Milburn (Sydney—Victoria)
00:03:55 2.2 Nick Wright (Halifax)
00:04:20 3 Quebec
00:04:29 3.1 Adam Sommerfeld (Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher)
00:05:29 4 Ontario
00:05:39 4.1 Beaches—East York: Jim Harris
00:05:55 4.2 Brampton—Springdale: Ian Raymond Chiocchio
00:06:41 4.3 Brant: Adam King
00:07:46 4.4 Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound: Shane Jolley
00:08:07 4.5 Carleton—Mississippi Mills: Jake Cole
00:09:58 4.6 Eglinton—Lawrence: Patrick Metzger
00:11:00 4.7 Etobicoke–Lakeshore: Philip Ridge
00:11:51 4.8 Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock: Andy Harjula
00:13:41 4.9 Hamilton Centre: John Livingstone
00:14:41 4.10 Kingston and the Islands: Eric Walton
00:16:44 4.11 Kitchener Centre: Tony Maas
00:17:17 4.12 Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington: Mike Nickerson
00:19:43 4.13 Leeds—Grenville: David Lee
00:22:41 4.14 Nepean—Carleton: Lori Gadzala
00:23:43 4.15 Newmarket—Aurora: Glenn Hubbers
00:25:07 4.16 Ottawa West—Nepean: Neil Adair
00:26:25 4.17 Peterborough: Brent Wood
00:27:25 4.18 Richmond Hill: Tim Rudkins
00:27:45 4.19 St. Catharines: Jim Fannon
00:27:58 4.20 Simcoe—Grey: Peter Ellis
00:28:52 4.21 Scarborough Southwest: Valery Philip
00:29:31 4.22 Scarborough—Guildwood: Mike Flanagan
00:30:11 4.23 Sudbury: Joey Methé
00:30:57 4.24 Thornhill: Lloyd Helferty
00:31:55 4.25 Toronto Centre: Chris Tindal
00:33:28 4.26 Wellington—Halton Hills: Brent Bouteiller
00:34:45 4.27 Whitby—Oshawa: Ajay Krishnan
00:35:40 4.28 Windsor Tecumseh: Catherine Pluard
00:37:10 4.29 Windsor West: Jillana Bishop
00:38:08 5 Manitoba
00:38:17 5.1 Mike Johannson (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia)
00:39:20 5.2 Jeff Fountain (Churchill)
00:40:12 5.3 Tanja Hutter (Elmwood—Transcona)
00:41:00 5.4 Charlie Howatt (Portage—Lisgar)
00:42:15 5.5 Janine Gibson (Provencher)
00:43:42 5.6 Marc Payette (St. Boniface)
00:45:05 5.7 David Michael Carey (Winnipeg North)
00:46:11 5.8 Wesley Owen Whiteside (Winnipeg South)
00:47:21 5.9 Vere H. Scott (Winnipeg South Centre)
00:48:28 6 Saskatchewan
00:48:38 6.1 Rick Barsky (Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar)
00:49:31 6.2 External links
00:49:43 6.3 Don Cameron (Saskatoon—Wanuskewin)
00:50:36 7 Alberta
00:50:45 7.1 Juliet Burgess (Calgary—Nose Hill)
00:51:41 7.2 Kim Warnke (Calgary Southwest)
00:53:10 7.3 Lynn Lau (Edmonton—Sherwood Park)
00:53:26 8 British Columbia
00:53:36 8.1 Karan Bowyer (Okanagan—Coquihalla)
00:54:05 8.2 Phil Brienesse(Skeena—Bulkley Valley)
00:54:40 8.3 Alex Bracewell (Cariboo—Prince George)
00:55:23 8.4 Hilary Crowley (Prince George—Peace River)
00:55:52 8.5 Matt Greenwood (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo)
00:56:36 8.6 Scott Janzen (Burnaby—New Westminster)
00:57:10 8.7 Ariel Lade (Victoria)
00:57:57 8.8 Scott Leyland (British Columbia Southern Interior)
00:58:29 8.9 Harry Naegel (Okanagan—Shuswap)
00:59:07 8.10 Clements Verhoeven (Kootenay—Columbia)
00:59:38 9 Footnotes
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The Green Party of Canada ran a full slate of 308 candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election. Some of these candidates have separate biography pages; relevant information about other candidates may be found here.
The candidates are listed by province and riding name.
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a territory of Canada. With a population of 41,462 in 2011 and an estimated population of 43,537 in 2013, the Northwest Territories is the most populous territory in Northern Canada. Yellowknife became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission.
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00:01:32 1 Terminology
00:04:03 2 History
00:04:16 2.1 Nationhood
00:10:31 2.2 European contact
00:13:14 2.2.1 Population of Native peoples at the end of the 15th century
00:14:09 2.3 16th–18th centuries
00:17:10 2.3.1 The Métis
00:18:27 2.3.2 Colonial wars
00:19:46 2.3.3 Slavery
00:22:11 2.3.4 1775–1815
00:24:06 2.4 19th century
00:27:13 2.4.1 Colonization and integration
00:29:49 2.5 20th century
00:31:44 2.6 First and Second World Wars
00:32:25 2.7 Late 20th century
00:33:13 2.7.1 1969 White Paper
00:34:10 2.7.2 Health transfer policy
00:35:46 2.7.3 Elijah Harper and the Meech Lake Accord
00:37:00 2.7.4 Women's status and Bill C-31
00:38:29 2.7.5 Erasmus–Dussault commission
00:40:08 2.8 Early 21st century
00:43:06 3 Canadian Crown and First Nations relations
00:44:18 3.1 Taxation
00:45:17 3.2 Political organization
00:46:41 4 Culture
00:47:13 4.1 Languages
00:48:31 4.2 Art
00:50:09 4.3 Music
00:51:20 4.4 Demographics
00:53:59 5 Contemporary issues
00:54:27 5.1 Residential schools
00:59:07 5.2 Employment
01:00:03 5.3 Self governance
01:00:34 5.4 Crime and incarceration
01:01:56 5.5 Health
01:04:02 5.5.1 Diabetes
01:05:35 5.5.2 Life expectancy
01:06:25 5.5.3 Suicide
01:07:51 5.5.4 Drinking water
01:08:22 5.6 Land claims
01:08:59 5.7 Missing and murdered women
01:11:27 5.8 Missing and murdered men
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In Canada, the First Nations (French: Premières Nations [pʁəmjɛʁ nasjɔ̃]) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle. Those in the Arctic area are distinct and known as Inuit. The Métis, another distinct ethnicity, developed after European contact and relations primarily between First Nations people and Europeans. There are 634 recognized First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.Under the Employment Equity Act, First Nations are a designated group, along with women, visible minorities, and people with physical or mental disabilities. First Nations are not defined as a visible minority under the Act or by the criteria of Statistics Canada.North American indigenous peoples have cultures spanning thousands of years. Some of their oral traditions accurately describe historical events, such as the Cascadia earthquake of 1700 and the 18th-century Tseax Cone eruption. Written records began with the arrival of European explorers and colonists during the Age of Discovery, beginning in the late 15th century. European accounts by trappers, traders, explorers, and missionaries give important evidence of early contact culture. In addition, archeological and anthropological research, as well as linguistics, have helped scholars piece together an understanding of ancient cultures and historic peoples.
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00:05:09 1 History
00:05:18 1.1 17th century
00:13:28 1.2 18th century
00:15:49 1.3 19th century
00:23:14 1.4 20th century
00:23:23 1.4.1 Department stores and diversification
00:24:51 1.4.2 Oil and gas operations
00:25:55 1.4.3 Retail expansion
00:29:10 1.5 21st century
00:36:21 2 Operations
00:37:42 2.1 Olympic outfitter
00:40:41 3 Archives
00:42:22 4 Corporate governance
00:42:37 4.1 Corporate hierarchy
00:44:49 4.2 Governors
00:45:01 5 Miscellany
00:45:09 5.1 Rent obligation under charter
00:46:24 5.2 Notable HBC explorers, builders, and associates
00:50:11 5.3 HBC sternwheelers and steamships
00:51:10 5.4 Rivals
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The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada, the United States and parts of Europe, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay, commonly referred to as The Bay (La Baie in French). Other divisions include Galeria Kaufhof, Home Outfitters, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. HBC's head office was in the Simpson Tower in Toronto, but it relocated northwest of Toronto to Brampton, Ontario. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol HBC.
The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay. It functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to some of those territories. It was once the world's largest landowner, controlling the area of the Hudson Bay watershed, known as Rupert's Land, which has 15% of North American acreage. From its long-time headquarters at York Factory on Hudson Bay, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English and later British-controlled North America for several centuries. Undertaking early exploration, its traders and trappers forged relationships with many groups of aboriginal peoples. Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States. In the late 19th century, with its signing of the Deed of Surrender, its vast territory became the largest portion of the newly-formed Dominion of Canada, in which the company was the largest private landowner.
By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling everything from furs to fine homeware. They quickly introduced a new type of client to the HBC – one that shopped for pleasure and not with skins; the retail era had begun as the HBC began establishing stores across the country.In 1863, the International Financial Society bought controlling interest in the HBCo., signalling a shift in the company’s outlook: most of the new shareholders were less interested in the fur trade than in real estate speculation and economic development in the West. The Society floated £2 million in public shares on non-ceded land held ostensibly by the Hudson's Bay Company as an asset and leveraged this asset for collateral for these funds. These funds allowed the Society the financial means to weather the financial collapse of 1866 which destroyed many competitors and invest in railways in North America. Negotiations conducted with the Colonial Office and, after 1867, with the Canadian government, eventually resulted in the sale of Rupert’s Land to Canada in 1870. As part of the agreement, the company received £300,000 and one-twentieth of the fertile areas to be opened for settlement. In addition, it retained title to the lands on which it had built trading esta ...
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