Portal:Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

Legal Documents

Constitutional Documents

• Charter of Hudson's Bay, 1670
• Rupert's Land Act, 1868, granting control of the company's territory to the Dominion of Canada
• Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order, 1870 order stating that the right of the HBC to trade without hindrance would be respected
• Manitoba Act, 1870

Documents Affecting the Company

• Oregon Treaty

Encyclopedia Entries

• "Hudson's Bay Company," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• "Hudson's Bay Company," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hudson Bay Company," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Works (substantially) about the Company

• "Rupert's Land," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Assiniboia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Fur Trade, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Works by Members

• Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America, effected by the Officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company, during the years 1836—39
  • "Simpson's Discoveries on the North Coast of America" in Littell's Living Age, 1 (1)

Works about Members

• "Pelly, John Henry," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Simpson, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Hearne, Samuel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Ballantyne, Robert Michael," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Simpson, Thomas (1808-1840)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Middleton, Christopher (d.1770)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Semple, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Ross, Alexander (1783-1856)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Ellice, Edward (1781-1863)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Whitman, Marcus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Rae, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Knight, James," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Douglas, Thomas (1771-1820)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Ryder, Dudley Francis Stuart," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Hearne, Samuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works touching on the Company, Trivia

• "Abitibbi," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dalle," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dobbs, Arthur," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Boise," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Edmonton (Alberta)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Pullen, Admiral William John," in The Dictionary of Australasian Biography, by Philip Mennell, London: Hutchinson & Co. (1892)
• "Riel, Louis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Whitman, Marcus," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Oregon City," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Aikins, James Cox," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
• "Alaska," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• "Alberta," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mackenzie, Alexander (1755?-1820)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Oregon," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• "British Columbia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Albany (river)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Canada," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville