the economic history of Canada
Hudson Bay Company
Group Name: Group D
Group Member: Zhanchao Lin, Xiaoqian Yu, Xuting Wang, Qing Chi, Xingyu Paul Zheng,
Yuan Che.
Site:
The Bay Centre, 1150 Douglas St, Victoria, BC
Mayfair Shopping Centre, 3125 Douglas St, Victoria, BC
Economic Relevance:
Hudson Bay Company as the largest company in early Canada history, also is a first commercial corporation company in the world. At the beginning, businessman and hunter did fur trade with First Nation tribe in Rupert land. As time goes by, it was form by English Royal Charter in 1670s. Today it has many department store in Canada includes Victoria. There are two stores in Victoria. It related to early trading between European and Aboriginal people in Canada. It also effected the early Canada economics until today. Their products include most groceries and clothes in our life.
Source 1 (website):
HBC Victoria Store. (n.d.). Hudson’s Bay Company. Retrieved from http://www.hbcheritage.ca/places/places-other-institutions/victoria
Source 2 (Newspaper Article from British Colonist Archives):
The Hudson Bay Route to Europe. (October 17, 1909). The Daily Colonist, p. 12. Retrieved from http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist19091017uvic/19091017#page/n0/mode/1up/search/hudson+bay+hudsons
Source 3 (Fire Insurance Map found via Econ321 Library Guide):
Goad, C.E. (1895). Sheet No 5 [Map] in Victoria, British [Fire Insurance Plans]. Civil Engineer: Chas. E. Goad. Retrieved from http://contentdm.library.uvic.ca/cdm/compoundobject/collection/collection11/id/136
Source 4 (Journal Article):
Spraakman, G. (2001). INTERNAL AUDIT AT THE HISTORICAL HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY: A CHALLENGE TO ACCEPTED HISTORY. The Accounting Historians Journal, 28(1), 19-41. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40698510
Research Question:
When did Hudson’s Bay find the city of Victoria and where did they choose to locate?
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