DCHP-2

Old Company DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.