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Term: North West Company

Definition:

Formed by British traders in Montreal in 1783, it employed 50 clerks and 1,100 voyageurs in 1798; controlled most of the Wisconsin fur trade until merging with the rival Hudson Bay Company in 1821.

View articles related to the fur trade at Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives.

[Source: Cultural Resource Management in Wisconsin (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986).]

33 records found

nanicular (farming)
naphtha (maritime)
narrow gauge (railroads)
Nashotah House
National Soldiers' Home (Milwaukee)
National Women's Party
nativism
Neenah Guards (Civil War)
Neenah Rifles (Civil War)
Neoclassical Revival (architecture)
neophyte
net tonnage (maritime)
New France
new red sandstone (mining)
New Richmond tornado (1899)
New Sweden
New York Recording Laboratories
Newhall House fire (1883)
Niagara (shipwreck, 1856)
Nineteenth Amendment
non-commissioned officers (Civil War)
Noque, Bay of
Noquet Islands
Normal school
Norse Pottery (1903-1913)
North Sea
North Star Rifles (Civil War)
North West Company
northeaster (maritime)
Northwest Ordinance (Ordinance of 1787)
Northwest Territory
Northwestern Regiment; Wisconsin Regulars (Civil W
Nose-bag (logging)
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