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Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the namesake Hudson's Bay (department store), Hudson's Bay department stores (colloquially The Bay), and also owns or manages approximately of gross leasable real estate through its HBC Properties and Investments business unit. HBC previously owned the full-line Saks Fifth Avenue and off-price Saks Off 5th in the United States, which were spun-off into the Saks Global holding company in 2024. After incorporation by royal charter issued in 1670 by Charles II of England, King Charles II, the company was granted a right of "sole trade and commerce" over an expansive area of land known as Rupert's Land, comprising much of the Hudson Bay drainage basin. This right gave the company a monopoly, commercial monopoly over that area. The HBC functioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Baymaud
''Maud'', named for Queen Maud of Norway, was a ship built for Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic. Designed for his intended voyage through the Northeast Passage, the vessel was built in Asker, a suburb of the capital, Oslo. ''Maud'' was launched in June 1916 or 17 June 1917 at Vollen and ceremonially christened by Amundsen crushing a chunk of ice against her bow: Career She lived up to her christening, as she remained in the ice until 2016. Whereas other vessels used in Amundsen's polar explorations, ''Gjøa'' and '' Fram'', have been preserved at the Norwegian Maritime Museum, ''Maud'' had a more rugged fate. After sailing through the Northeast Passage, which did not go as planned and took six years between 1918 and 1924, she ended up in Nome, Alaska and in August 1925 was sold on behalf of Amundsen's creditors in Seattle, Washington. The buyer was the Hudson's Bay Company, which renamed her ''Baymaud''. She was to be used as a supply vessel for Company o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Caledonia (1890 HBC Vessel)
Caledonia (; ) was the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to the forested region in the central and western Scottish Highlands, particularly stretching through parts of what are now Lochaber, Badenoch, Strathspey, and possibly as far south as Rannoch Moor, known as Coed Celedon (Coed Celyddon using the modern alphabet) to the native Brython (Britons). Today, it is used as a romantic or poetic name for all of Scotland. During the Roman Empire's occupation of Britain, the area they called Caledonia was physically separated from the rest of the island by the Antonine Wall. It remained outside the administration of Roman Britain. Latin historians, including Tacitus and Cassius Dio, referred to the territory north of the River Forth as "Caledonia", and described it as inhabited by the Maeatae and the Caledonians (). The name is derived from the word Celyddon in Common Brittonic. History Etymology means 'the forested region’; it is derived from the Welsh wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Buffalo Lake (HBC Vessel)
Buffalo Lake may refer to: Settlements * Buffalo Lake, Minnesota, U.S. * Buffalo Lake, Alberta, Canada Lakes Canada * Buffalo Lake (Alberta) * Buffalo Lake (Northwest Territories) United States *Buffalo Lake ( Murray County, Minnesota) *Buffalo Lake (Waseca County, Minnesota Waseca County () is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 18,968. Its county seat is Waseca, Minnesota, Waseca. History In 1849, the newly organize ...) * Buffalo Lake (Wright County, Minnesota) * Buffalo Lakes (Glacier County, Montana) * Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge (North Dakota) * Buffalo Lake (Minnehaha County, South Dakota) * Buffalo Lakes, a lake chain in South Dakota * Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Randall County, Texas *Buffalo Lake ( Marquette County, Wisconsin) * Lake Buffalo, in South Dakota Other uses * ''Buffalo Lake'' (HBC vessel), a Hudson's Bay Company vessel See also * Buf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Broughton (HBC Vessel)
Broughton may refer to: People * Broughton (name) Places Australia * Broughton, Queensland, a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland * Broughton, Victoria Canada * Broughton, Nova Scotia * Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia ** Broughton Island (British Columbia), an island in that archipelago ** North Broughton Island, to the north of Broughton Island ** Broughton Point, on the south coast of North Broughton Island *the Broughton Strait off the north coast of Vancouver Island, between that island and Queen Charlotte Strait *the Broughton Peaks, a small group of peaks in the Barkley Sound region of the west coast of Vancouver Island Jamaica * Broughton, Jamaica United Kingdom England * Broughton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire * Broughton, Cambridgeshire * Broughton, Claverley, Shropshire, a location * Broughton, Cumbria * Broughton, Hampshire * Broughton, Lancashire * Broughton, Lincolnshire * Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire * Broughton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brierley Hill (1872 HBC Vessel)
Brierley Hill is a town and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands (originally in Staffordshire), England. It is located south of Dudley and north of Stourbridge. Part of the Black Country and in a heavily industrialised area, it had a population of 13,935 at the 2011 census. It is best known for glass and steel manufacturing, although the industry has declined considerably since the 1970s. One of the largest factories in the area was the Round Oak Steelworks, which closed down and was redeveloped in the 1980s to become the Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Since 2008, Brierley Hill has been designated as the Strategic Town Centre of the Dudley Borough. Toponymy The name ''Brierley Hill'' derives from the Old English words 'brer', meaning the place where the Briar Rose grew; 'leah', meaning a woodland clearing; and 'hill'. History Largely a product of the Industrial Revolution, Brierley Hill has a relatively recent history, with the first written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beaver Lake (1938 HBC Vessel)
Beaver Lake may refer to: Lakes Antarctica * Beaver Lake (Antarctica) Canada * Beaver Lake (Alberta) * Beaver Lake (Vancouver), British Columbia * Beaver Lake (Victoria, British Columbia) * Beaver Lake (Montreal) * Beaver Lakes (Annapolis), Nova Scotia * Beaver Lake (Halifax), Nova Scotia, the name of several lakes * Beaver Lake (Inverness), Nova Scotia * Beaver Lake (Pictou), Nova Scotia * Beaver Lake (Queens), Nova Scotia * Beaver Lake (Shelburne), Nova Scotia * Beaver Lake (Victoria, Nova Scotia) * Beaver Lake (Yarmouth), Nova Scotia * Beaver Lake (Saskatchewan) United States * Beaver Lake (Alaska), site of Beaver Lake Dam *Beaver Lake (Arkansas) *Beaver Lake (Newton County, Indiana), now drained * Beaver Lake (Dexter, Iowa) * Beaver Lake (Kentucky) *Beaver Lake, Steele County, Minnesota * Beaver Lake (Montana), a lake in Missoula County * Beaver Lake (Nevada) * Beaver Lake (Hamilton County, New York) * Beaver Lake (New York), in Lewis County * Beaver Lake State Park (North D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diesel Tugboat Beaver Lake, And Loaded Barge, Leaving Waterways, Alberta, For The Arctic, 1946 - N-2013-014-0422
Diesel may refer to: * Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression * Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines * Diesel locomotive, a railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine Arts and entertainment * Diesel (band), a Dutch pop/rock group * ''Diesel'' (1942 film), a German film about Rudolf Diesel * Diesel (game engine), a computer gaming technology * Diesel, a former name of Brazilian rock band Udora People Surname * Nathanael Diesel (1692–1745), Danish composer, violinist and lutenist * Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German inventor and mechanical engineer * Vin Diesel (Mark Sinclair, born 1967), American actor, producer and director Nickname or ring name * Diesel (musician) (Mark Lizotte, born 1966), American-Australian rock singer-songwriter * Zach Banner (born 1993), once known as The Diesel, American football player * Diesel Dahl (born 1959), drummer of TNT * Fazal-ur-Rehman (politician) famously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beaver (1788 HBC Vessel)
Beavers (genus ''Castor'') are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers are the second-largest living rodents, after capybaras, weighing up to . They have stout bodies with large heads, long chisel-like incisors, brown or gray fur, hand-like front feet, webbed back feet, and tails that are flat and scaly. The two species differ in skull and tail shape and fur color. Beavers can be found in a number of freshwater habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes and ponds. They are herbivorous, consuming tree bark, aquatic plants, grasses and sedges. Beavers build dams and lodges using tree branches, vegetation, rocks and mud; they chew down trees for building material. Dams restrict water flow, forming ponds, and lodges (usually built in ponds) serve as shelters. Their infrastructure creates wetlands used by many other species, and because o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beaver (steamship)
''Beaver'' was a steamship originally owned and operated by the Hudson's Bay Company. She was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America, and made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading. At one point she was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia. She served off the coast from 1836 until 1888, when she was wrecked. Service ''Beaver'' served trading posts maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company between the Columbia River and Russian America (Alaska) and played an important role in helping maintain British control in British Columbia during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858–59. In 1862 the Royal Navy chartered her to survey and chart the coast of the Colony of British Columbia. She also provided assistance to the Royal Navy at Bute Inlet during the Chilcotin War. Loss A consortium that became the British Columbia Towing and Transportation Company in 1874 purchased her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
