In 1821, the two companies merged, controlling the fur trade on one-quarter of North America's land mass. That monopoly held for much of the 19th century. The Hudson's Bay Company didn't get into ...

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In addition to establishing Hudson's Bay as a fur trading company, the document gave the business rights to a vast swath of land spanning ... its red wax seal, will own the Holy Grail, said ...