Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Hudson's Bay Company
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Hudson's Bay Company began mining coal on Vancouver Island in the early 1850s, first at Fort Rupert and, by 1852, in Nanaimo. The Hudson's Bay Company sold it's land and mining interests to the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company, a London, England based syndicate, in 1862.