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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.
There was little need for coinage in the territories controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company; the fur trade depended primarily on barter, although brass tokens (see Made Beaver) served the purpose of coinage. In colonial BC, very few coins were in circulation.