The Great Company
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The Hudson's Bay Company witnessed the French dominion in Northamerica rise to its extreme height, decline and disappear; it saw new colonies planted by Britain; it saw them quarrel with the parent State, and themselves become transformed into States. Wars came and passed—European Powers on this continent waxed and waned, rose and faded away; remote forests were invaded by loyal subjects who erected the wilderness into opulent provinces. Change, unceasing, never-ending change, has marked the history of this hemisphere of ours; yet there is one force, one institution, which survived nearly all ...
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- THE GREAT COMPANY BEING A HISTORY OF THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF MERCHANTS-ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO HUDSON'S BAY
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CHAPTER I. 1660-67.
- CHAPTER II. 1659-1666.
- CHAPTER III. 1667-1668.
- CHAPTER IV. 1668-1670.
- CHAPTER V. 1668-1670.
- CHAPTER VI. 1671.
- CHAPTER VII. 1671-1673.
- CHAPTER VIII. 1673-1682.
- CHAPTER IX. 1682-1683.
- CHAPTER X. 1684-1687.
- CHAPTER XI. 1683-1686.
- CHAPTER XII. 1686-1689.
- CHAPTER XIII. 1689-1696.
- CHAPTER XIV. 1696-1697.
- CHAPTER XV. 1698-1713.
- CHAPTER XVI. 1697-1712.
- CHAPTER XVII. 1712-1720.
- CHAPTER XVIII. 1719-1727.
- CHAPTER XIX. 1687-1712.
- CHAPTER XX. 1685-1742.
- CHAPTER XXI. 1725-1742.
- CHAPTER XXII. 1744-1748.
- CHAPTER XXIII. 1748-1760.
- CHAPTER XXIV. 1763-1770.
- CHAPTER XXV. 1768-1773.
- CHAPTER XXVI. 1773-1782.
- CHAPTER XXVII. 1783-1800.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. 1787-1808.
- CHAPTER XXIX. 1808-1812.
- CHAPTER XXX. 1812-1815.
- CHAPTER XXXI. 1816-1817.
- CHAPTER XXXII. 1817-1821.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. 1821-1847.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. 1846-1863.
- CHAPTER XXXV. 1863-1871.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. 1821-1871.
- THE HUDSON'S BAY POSTS.
- APPENDIX.
- GOVERNORS OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
- DEPUTY-GOVERNORS OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
- INDEX.
- FOOTNOTES:
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