{"id":109648,"date":"2017-12-09T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:54:02","slug":"hudsons-bay-company-incorporated-1670-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/hudsons-bay-company-incorporated-1670-3\/","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\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6f\/Hudsons_Bay_Company_Flag.svg\/600px-Hudsons_Bay_Company_Flag.svg.png\"><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=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbc.com\/hbcheritage\/history\/overview.asp\">history<\/a> at the Company&#8217;s web site, including the full text of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbc.com\/hbcheritage\/collections\/archival\/charter\/charter.asp\">the Charter<\/a>.<\/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\/109648"}],"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=109648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}