The Hudson's Bay Company

From trading post to emporium, this book presents a tricentennial history of Canada's pioneering fur-traders. The Hudson's Bay Company was the one chartered company that refused to die. It survived to play its part in the building of Canada, and today, like the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, it is one of those institutions that Canadians can criticize but never dismiss. But its historical importance is wider than Canada, for it represents one of the great forces in the drive that impelled Americans and Canadians alike across the great plains and the mountains towards the western ocean.