1795  (1918)  The profits arising yearly from a share in the N. W. Co. have been various these eleven years past. . . .
1799  We hear, that the N.W. Company, has given Twelve Thousand Pounds towards, making Yonge-Street a good road, and that the N.W. commerce will be communicated through this place.
1820  (1955)  There is a possibility that I may be obstructed in my Rout as the N.W. Coy a band of unprincipled Lawless Marauders stick at nothing however desperate to gain their ends.