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The Hudson Bay Company or HBC was given the exclusive right to trade furs in the are granted to them. The name of the company signified the geographic access to the heart of North America's rich fur trading area.
In 1869, two years after Confederation, the Hudson's Bay Company agreed to sell its territory of Rupert's Land, from Manitoba to the Rockies, to the new Government of Canada in Ottawa. This would open the way for settlement of the west.