ip of the Hudson's Bay Company entered
the bay, and their first fort was built at the mouth of Rupert River.
=Index=: =F= English claim to, disputed by France, 204; La Barre
instructed to check English encroachments in, 205; expedition under De
Troyes captures English forts, 205; Iberville's exploits in, 342-350;
English possessions in, restored by peace of Ryswick, 349. =L=
Expedition against English forts in, 204; later exploits of Iberville
in, 233. =Bib.=: Asher, _Henry Hudson, the Navigator_; Gosch,
_Expedition of Jens Munk_; Christy, _Voyages of Foxe and James_; Coats,
_Geography of Hudson's Bay_; Robson, _Account of Six Years' Residence in
Hudson's Bay_; Dobbs, _Account of Countries Adjoining Hudson's Bay_;
Gordon, _Report on Hudson's Bay Expedition_; Wakeham, _Second Hudson Bay
Expedition_; Low, _Expedition to Hudson Bay_; Berrier, _Report on
Expedition to Arctic Islands_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_;
Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_. _See also_ General Indexes to Reports of
Geol. Survey; Henry Hudson; Hudson's Bay Company.

=Hudson's Bay Company.= Organized by a number of English gentlemen, who
sent out a trading expedition to Hudson Bay, in the _Nonsuch_, in 1668.
This initial venture proved so successful that two other ships were sent
out in 1670; and the same year King Charles granted a charter
incorporating them as "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of
England trading into Hudson's Bay." For many years the operations of the
Company were confined to the shores of Hudson Bay, but the pressure of
competition eventually forced them inland, and at the height of their
power they had established trading-posts from Labrador to the Pacific,
and from California almost to the Arctic. In 1821, the rival North West
Company (_q.v._) was absorbed; and in 1869 the company surrendered to
Canada its territorial rights in British North America. =Index=: =F=
203; trading done and posts established by, 204; redress claimed by, for
losses inflicted by the French, 343. =Dr= Its territory not included in
Canada, 7. =B= Deputation of Red River settlers sent to England to
complain of misgovernment by, 212; Gladstone admits charter of Company
not valid, 212; _Globe_ on company's misgovernment of North-West
Territories, 213-214; attacked in series of letters in the _Globe_,
signed "Huron," 215-216; Toronto Board of Trade on, 216; George Brown
on, 219; Canada takes over North-West Territories, and compensates
Company th