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THERE ARE MANY WAYS to tell the story of the Hudson's Bay Company, which claimed and traded on some eight million square kilometres of the Earth's surface, including large parts of Canada and the northwestern United States. According to one official, the presence of Indigenous women at HBC factories was "very prejudiciall to the Companies affaires" because it gave HBC men a means of "debauching themselves", "embezzling our goods and very much exhausting our Provisions." While the HBC provided urban shoppers with a range of goods, many Indigenous Peoples maintained a different relationship to the company, particularly those in northern communities where the HBC trading post was the only store around. In 2006, U.S.- based NRDC Equity Partners purchased the company, and the HBC brand is now affiliated with a range of department stores across the U.S. and Europe. [Extracted from the article]
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