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N.W. Company N.W. Co. and N.W. Coy Hist.

• a fur-trading syndicate with its headquarters at Montreal, organized between 1775 and 1783 and absorbed by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.

  See also: North West Company  

  • 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.