Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history.
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Synopsis:
The story of dispossessed Scots and Englishmen living out their boldest fantasies and getting rich in the process. In the service of the Company of Adventurers of England they became proprietors of most of modern Canada and the Northwest United States - one-twelfth of the Earth's surface.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0140114564
- ISBN 13 9780140114560
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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