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Old Company 
1 the popular and traditional name of the Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, chartered by Charles II in 1670.
See also: Hudson's Bay Company
- 1900 "What does 'H.B.C.' mean? Returned the native grimly: "That's the old Company, Here before Christ."
- 1909 No man or woman can travel with any degree of comfort throughout Northwest America except under the kindly aegis of the Old Company.
- 1953 The Hudson's Bay Company--"the old Company"--had outposts only at Kapisakau and Attawapiskat, none further north.
2 See quote.
- 1935 This was the period [1804] when the XY, or "New Company," was being absorbed by the "Old Company," from which it had broken off, and both became the North West Company.
- 1900 "What does 'H.B.C.' mean? Returned the native grimly: "That's the old Company, Here before Christ."