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Article: Celebrating ten years of Hudson's Bay Company's gifts to Manitoba and to Canada.(Anniversary)
- Article from:
- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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It was an untypical corporate event for Hudson's Bay Company.
Rather than another starched annual meeting or the festive opening of a new retail store, the Bay brass had come to Winnipeg from Toronto, on March 15, 1994, to announce a magnificent and unprecedented gift to the Province of Manitoba. It was a gift that would raise the bar on Canadian corporate philanthropy, simultaneously solidify Winnipeg as the centre for the study of the North American fur trade, and complement other Manitoba-based gifts the company had made previously to the country or the province.
York Factory, at the mouth of the Hayes River in northern Manitoba, and Lower Fort Garry, ...