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Empire of the bay peter c newman6/27/2023 ![]() Between the polar- opposite regimes of these two, Newman tracks HBC's expansion into the Arctic, the subsequent decline of the mainstay fur trade, and the boardroom battles that resulted in the shift of HBC's legal domicile from London to Winnipeg on the 300th anniversary of its founding. Among them are the rascally, self-serving Donald Alexander Smith, a longtime governor of HBC, as well as Kenneth (Lord) Thomson, the miserly heir to a newspaper/petroleum fortune who gained control of ``The Bay'' (as it's known up north) in 1979. As before, the author again focuses on larger-than-life personalities who played major roles in the corporate drama. Here, Newman covers the 120-odd years through mid- 1991, during which HBC devolved into the Dominion's largest department-store chain. helped shape Canadian history as a royally chartered (in 1670) instrument of British empire. ![]() ![]() The final volume in Newman's three-part engrossing and epic record (1985, 1987) of how the Hudson's Bay Co. ![]()
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