T his week, our two countries celebrate national holidays. Canada’s was July 1 and is called simply Canada Day. It used to be known as Dominion Day but that had a bit too much of a whiff of ...

June saw the death of a musician whose talent brought The Beach Boys from a local California band to hitmakers and international ambassadors of surf and sun.

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The Hudson’s Bay Company established Fort Vancouver as its Western headquarters in 1825, where it operated its fur business stretching from present-day Alaska to Northern California and from the ...

Hudson’s Bay was “an English company claiming and helping to colonize huge swathes of North America, inhabited by sovereign Indigenous nations,” wrote Melissa Gismondi in Canadian Geographic ...

Contact us or unsubscribe anytime. The Hudson's Bay Company as we knew it is officially dead and gone after a monumental 355 years, marking a deeply sorrowful moment for Canadians everywhere.

The Hudson’s Bay stores were long centered in Western Canada, with this outlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba, serving as the company’s head office. Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba ...

His early maps still exist, showing the beginning of understanding the vast land and many rivers flowing to Hudson Bay over which the company operated.

After first publicly expressing interest on Chinese social media in acquiring numerous soon-to-be-vacated Hudson's Bay locations — amid mounting signs early this spring of the 355-year-old ...

Despite Hudson’s Bay losing the Olympic contract in 2021 to Lululemon Athletica Inc., Freed & Freed’s relationship with the department store blossomed and it started making striped merchandise.

It gives them answers to their past." Lavallee has been able to use the Hudson's Bay Company Archives to learn more about her ancestor James Bird, a high-ranking officer with the company who was born ...

Bankruptcy will likely push the company to auction off its 1670 charter in a matter of weeks, and it could fetch a price in the millions By Colby Cosh Published Apr 23, 2025 Last updated Apr 23, 2025 ...