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Beaver Club Hist.

• 1 a social club in Montreal, founded by members of the North West Company.

  • c1799  (1889-1890)  I shall sound them about the plan of renewing the Beaver Club. . . .
  • 1817  The Beaver Club, social and gay, / With pipe and Paddle combine.
  • 1933  Founded in 1785 by nineteen partners of the Northwest Company, all of whom had wintered in the [North] West, the Beaver Club lived until 1824. . . .

• 2 a present-day social organization for employees of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  • 1934  So in 1931, when all the employees' welfare and social organizations in Canada were brought into line, no name was more obviously suitable for them than Beaver Club. . . . in 1924, an organization of the same name was formed among the London staff of the Company, and this continues to live and flourish. Let us concern ourselves, however, with the Beaver Clubs that exist in the six large stores, and in Hudson's Bay House, Winnipeg.