elebration of, we The Bay celebrates fits 325th a anniversary Landmark event for Canada’s" oldest company Wolcome to the store that put Canada of\ the map! The links between’ Canada.and_ the - Hudson's Bay Company are forged strong. Ours is one history! Established on May 2. 1670, by the Royal. Chartar of King Charles I, the. Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest continuing comniercial enterprise in the world, With this charter, “The Governor and company of Adventurers of England trading in Hudson's Bay”, were given ” 1,486,000 square miles; 38% of what today is Canada. For the first t00 years, the company Ceveloped and established trading posts acress Canada. In 1784, It met with its most formidable rival - the powerlul North West Company. Years of vio- lence, bloodshed, seizures and arrests ensued ‘until the two companies merged:in 1821. The Hudson's Bay Company. then had control of a truly continental domain for nearly hali a century. -- When the Conledaratian of Canada became a . -- political reality in 1867, the British North » American Act made provision tor the admission : “of the Company's territory and. other. Crown ‘domains’ Into the Confederation... {twas the beginning of a new era. The Company relin- quished its claims and received £300,000 com- pensation, plus a percentage of the fand within *- restricted areas. ‘Late in the last century, the: Hudson's Bay , Company turned its attention to retailing. Taday, 325 years later, Canada's oldest and one of its.* “largest enterprises owns and operates three | “major retail companies: The Bay, Zellers and .. Fieids. In the spring of 1993, the Hudson's Bay Company acquired the. financially-troubled Woodward's chain of department stores ina ea Newspap 2 multi-miflion dollar takeover that concluded in June when Woadward's legally amalgamated _with jhe H, B.C, subsiviary,. Zellers Inc. The acquisition comprised 21 stores in British Columbia and Alberta, which have been con- verted {o the Bay of Zellers stores. Serving Canadians from coast to coast, the ‘Bay department stores are world-class eimpori- ums with merchandise of every description. Canadian heritage is interwoven with Hudson's Bay Point blankets’ and coats, Nol to ba over- looked is tha Bay's splendid collection of English bone china; exquisite crystal, B.C. jade and Canadiana souvenirs. Bay stores also have fashionable boutiques with leading designer apparel, as well asithe Bay's own brands of quality clothing. On May 2, 1995, tha Hudson's Bay Company celebrated its 325th Anniversary and now is making plans to move into the 21st Century. A quote trom Peter Newman's revised “Empire of the Bay” seems appropriate at this time: “Even with its ancieni | Charter and royal land grant ,..:ihere has raraly been anything resem- bling certainty in the: history of the Hudson's Bay Company. For,the pioneering clerks who sat-out their lives inthe bleak. forts around Hudson Bay, even bare survival was not guar- _ anteed, They were ordinary men, by and large, castaways in a light-tisted land, yet they achieved something truly magnificent. They endured, The retailing environment at the end of the 20th Century‘is no more certain, yet ‘more than merely enduring, the (Hudson's . Bay) Company prospers.” adverti sing: nd flyers to the households we ‘serve Ve.all ae earning about The Hudson's Bay ee in. tate een we were Ikin about:what we wanted to say inthis ad and we were ife'in*our countr etwork (VAN Network), would like to salute The Bay,on the occasion’of their 325th birthday. . We're proud to carry your — “325th Celebration at Park “Royal © Regional Manager Paul Hudson. & Alderman Rod Day : The’ North Shore News The Vancouver Courier. ~ : The Vancouver Echo The Richmond News _ The Delta Optimist :- The Burnaby Now: The Royal City Record’: The Coquitlam Now The Maple Ridge © & Pitt Meadows Times - The Surrey, White Rock. & North Delta Now.: The Langley Advance News. ‘The Abbotsford Times | The Mission Times |. The Chilliwack Times _ The Squamish Chief ... The Whistler Question - The. Kelowna Capital News: 4 The Shuswap Sun | \yThe Merritt News The, Enderby ‘Commoner Ob, was at The Bay a phidonderry t orning trips ‘she'd. take with ° S$ about one of the great sales staff: : we were looking at would probably.be going on days, t thus saving us a a few dollars. it really,is,"hard not: