1913  There was little difference between the free men and the Company men. . . .
1938  They showed the deep respect for the "Company" man that characterized all the Crees[,] refusing to let me work around the camp at night, since this is considered demeaning to an Okemow.
1961  In time Jim Watt became what has been known for two hundred and fifty years as a "Company man," his chief loyalty, aside from his family, to serve the best interests of the Hudson's Bay Company.