{"id":109346,"date":"2018-01-12T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:51:36","slug":"hudsons-bay-company-incorporated-1670-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/12\/hudsons-bay-company-incorporated-1670-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson`s Bay Company incorporated, 1670"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" style=\"background-color: #e1ecff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.02px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px;\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header-line-1\" style=\"background-color: #e1ecff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\" style=\"background-color: #e1ecff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.75em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6f\/Hudsons_Bay_Company_Flag.svg\/600px-Hudsons_Bay_Company_Flag.svg.png\" style=\"color: #6c82b5; text-decoration-line: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6f\/Hudsons_Bay_Company_Flag.svg\/600px-Hudsons_Bay_Company_Flag.svg.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(33, 86, 112); cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; padding: 4px; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>In 1668 two English ships sailed for Hudson Bay to evaluate trade opportunities in the area. The expedition was instigated by two French fur traders called M\u00e9dard des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson who had discovered from the Cree that the area was good for furs. After approaching a group of Boston businessmen, the two travelled to England where they commissioned the vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Following a successful trade mission, on 2nd May 1670 King Charles II granted a Royal Charter to incorporate the The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson&#8217;s Bay (commonly called the Hudson&#8217;s Bay Company) at the instigation of the King&#8217;s cousin, Prince Rupert who became the first governor of the company. The Charter granted the Company a monopoly of trade with the indigenous populations in any area where rivers flowed into the Bay. This area, covering approximately one and a half million square miles, was named Rupert&#8217;s Land in honour of the first governor.<\/p>\n<p>The Hudson&#8217;s Bay Company is still in existence. You can find out more about its&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbc.com\/hbcheritage\/history\/overview.asp\" style=\"color: #6c82b5; text-decoration-line: none;\">history<\/a>&nbsp;at the Company&#8217;s web site, including the full text of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbc.com\/hbcheritage\/collections\/archival\/charter\/charter.asp\" style=\"color: #6c82b5; text-decoration-line: none;\">the Charter<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1668 two English ships sailed for Hudson Bay to evaluate trade opportunities in the area. The expedition was instigated by two French fur traders called M\u00e9dard des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson who had discovered from the Cree that the area was good for furs. After approaching a group of Boston businessmen, the two travelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}