a fur-trading company established in the Michilimackinac region by British interests.
- 1836  (1868)  A new association of British merchants was formed. . . . The chief factory was established at the old emporium of Michilimackinac, from which place the association took its name, and was commonly called the Mackinaw Company.
- 1934  . . . about 1795 the first Mackinac Company was formed.