Catalogue description Board of Trade: Hudson's Bay, Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 134
Title: Board of Trade: Hudson's Bay, Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Hudson's Bay.
Date: 1675-1759
Arrangement:

Correspondence is arranged chronologically in bound volumes
Related material:

For copies of the Hudson's Bay Company Archive see BH 1

For entry books of outletters, etc. see CO 135
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 3 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers of correspondence see CO 326.

Administrative / biographical background:

All the lands draining into Hudson's Bay, which Henry Hudson had explored in 1610, were assigned to the Hudson's Bay Company on its creation by royal charter in 1670. A French trading post was established in Hudson's Bay in 1668, and between 1682 and 1713 Britain and France fought for control of the area, a dispute that was settled in Britain's favour by the 1714 Treaty of Utrecht. In 1821 the company amalgamated with the North-West Company, which had been formed after 1763 to exploit the North-West Territories not covered by the 1670 charter. In 1869 the Hudson's Bay Company sold its territorial rights to Canada.

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