North West Co.

North West Co.
(1783–1821).

Empresa británico-canadiense dedicada al comercio de pieles. Sus actividades se centraban en la región del lago Superior y los valles de los ríos Rojo, Assiniboine y Saskatchewan. Posteriormente se expandió hacia el norte y el oeste hasta el Ártico y el Pacífico. Cuando su competidora, la Hudson's Bay Co., estableció una colonia junto al río Rojo (1811–12), los trabajadores de North West la destruyeron en la masacre de Seven Oaks. Los trabajadores de Hudson's Bay, en represalia, destruyeron la factoría de North West en Fort Gibraltar. En 1821 el gobierno de Gran Bretaña, presionó a las empresas para que se fusionaran con el nombre de Hudson's Bay Co.

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