Anthony Beale ( 1664 – 13 April 1731) became a governor and chief commander for the

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business di ...

James Bay James Bay (french: Baie James; cr, ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, Wînipekw, dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean, of which James Bay is the southernmost pa ...

. Beale was an apprentice with the Hudson's Bay Company starting in 1678. He rose gradually through the ranks of the company and received his appointment as governor in 1705. He served until 1714 when the

Treaty of Utrecht The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715. The war involved three contenders for the vacant throne ...

gave the British sovereignty over

Rupert's Land Rupert's Land (french: Terre de Rupert), or Prince Rupert's Land (french: Terre du Prince Rupert, link=no), was a territory in British North America which comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin; this was further extended from Rupert's Land t ...

. This changed the fabric and scope of the HBC operations and, in 1714, Beale was recalled to England.

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* 1664 births 1731 deaths Canadian fur traders {{Canada-business-bio-stub