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Family-Company-Compact Hist. 
n. a group, dominated by officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, that controlled the Crown Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia in the 1850's under the governship of Sir James Douglas.
- 1859 Does the Family-Company-Compact of Vancouver's Island tend to build up public confidence, and promote the harmony and prosperity of the country?
- 1921 De Cosmos was. . . the champion of political reform, and one of the greatest opponents of Douglas and his administration, which he denounced as the "Family-Company-Compact."
- 1958 From its first issues the influence of the earlier Reform movement on the new paper was apparent. It was reflected in the name DeCosmos coined for Douglas, his governing clique and the Hudson's Bay Company--the Family-Company-Compact--and in the allusions he made to illustrate the colonists' demands.
- 1859 Does the Family-Company-Compact of Vancouver's Island tend to build up public confidence, and promote the harmony and prosperity of the country?