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Catalogue description Board of Trade: Hudson's Bay, Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 134 |
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| 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| Unpublished finding aids: |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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