Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Hudson's Bay Company
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Description area
Dates of existence
From 1670
History
The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) was created by Royal Charter in 1670. For the most part of its history, the HBC was a fur trading business that played a significant role in the British colonization of North America.
During the second half of the 20th Century, the company gradually transformed into a department store chain.