who are it's competitors?
James Sinclair and Andrew McDermot
Hudson's Bay Company
James Sinclair and Andrew McDermot
what is fort vancouver centennial half dollars? A commemorative fifty-cent piece who designed it? Laura Gardin Fraser to honor whom was it made? John McLoughlin who was he? He was a Chief Factor and Superintendent of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort what sort of firm is it? A mercantile business selling a wide variety of products from furs to fine homeware when was it founded? UNANSWERABLE
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Hudson's Bay Company [SEP] Competition
Although the HBC maintained a monopoly on the fur trade during the early to mid-19th century, there was competition from James Sinclair and Andrew McDermot (Dermott), independent traders in the Red River Colony. They shipped furs by the Red River Trails to Norman Kittson a buyer in the United States. In addition, Americans controlled the Maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast until the 1830s. Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, the HBC controlled nearly all trading operations in the Pacific Northwest, based at the company headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River.Although claims to the region were by agreement in abeyance, commercial operating rights were nominally shared by the United States and Britain through the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, but company policy, enforced via Chief Factor John McLoughlin of the company's Columbia District, was to discourage U.S.