North West Company | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_Company


00:00:26 1 Before the Company
00:01:29 2 Beginnings
00:02:30 3 Official founding
00:03:48 4 Frobisher–McTavish deal
00:07:24 5 Late 18th/early 19th century
00:12:03 6 Forced merger
00:15:01 7 Social and ethnic structure
00:15:44 7.1 Bourgeois
00:17:07 7.2 iEngagés/i
00:18:07 7.3 Social dynamics
00:18:50 8 Company staff
00:22:20 9 Organizational history
00:27:09 10 Revival



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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.