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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.
The Scotch philanthropist Thomas Douglas (1771-1820), fifth earl of Selkirk, who owned a controlling interest in the Hudson Bay Company, decided to establish a colony of Scotch settlers in the fertile Red River basin near present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba.is first settlers arrived in 1812, much to the consternation of the North West Company, the Hudson Bay Company's principal rival, whose fur traders used the region for transporting their goods. The settlers were persuaded to leave in 1815, but a new group arrived and restored the Red River colony the following year.