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Podcast: Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Episode: Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(1): The Royal Charter
Description: “CHARLES THE SECOND, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To ALL to whom these Presents shall come, greeting.” With that opening line, a Royal Charter granted all of the land in the watershed of Hudson’s Bay, a massive area of present day Canada and the northern United States, to the Hudson’s Bay Company, or as it was known then, “The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson’s Bay.”As an historic document, “it is both incredible and problematic,” says Amelia Fay, Curat...