By Tara Deschamps Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s oldest company, is seeking court permission to auction off its artifacts, art and even the royal charter that gave the business the power to dominate the 17th century fur trade. However, thousands of items imbued with Bay history have already wound up in the hands of archival institutions. Here’s a look at where some of the Bay’s memorabilia resides. Manitoba Museum The Winnipeg museum’s website says Hudson’s Bay began to acquire historical objects to open a museum in 1920. The company wound up donating many of those items to the Manitoba Museum in 1994 and its collection kept growing over the years because of donations from the descendants of fur trading families and other Bay employees. The museum now counts 27,000 on its Hudson’s… <\/p>\n
By Tara Deschamps Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s oldest company, is seeking court permission to auction off its artifacts, art and even the royal charter that gave the business the power to dominate the 17th century fur trade. However, thousands of items imbued with Bay history have already wound up in the hands of archival institutions. Here’s a look at where some of the Bay’s memorabilia resides. Manitoba Museum The Winnipeg museum’s website says Hudson’s Bay began to acquire historical objects to open a museum in 1920. The company wound up donating many of those items to the Manitoba Museum in 1994 and its collection kept growing over the years because of donations from the descendants of fur trading families and other Bay employees. The museum now counts 27,000 on its Hudson’s... <\/p>\n