Word: radisson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 1925 will prove the 255th birthday of the Hudson's Bay Co.- the oldest commercial company in the world. This ancient concern was organized in 1670, after Pierre Radisson, French promoter, had persuaded Charles II of England to send a small 50-ton ship, the Nonsuch, across the Atlantic to investigate the financial possibilities of Canada. The royal charter issued to the Company, still preserved in London, presented it with about a third of modern Canada. During the next 200 years, the "Company of Merchant Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" conducted a government...