North West Company
The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what is present-day Western Canada. With great wealth at stake, tensions between the companies increased to the point where several minor armed skirmishes broke out, and the two companies were forced by the British government to merge.
| Former type | Private
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| Fate | Merger
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| Founded | 1789
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| Founder | Benjamin Frobisher, Joseph, Simon McTavish, Robert Grant, Nicholas Montour, Patrick Small, William Holmes, George McBeath
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| Defunct | 1821
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| Area served | United States territory, Spanish territory, Russian Empire territory, Qing Dynasty China, British Canada
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