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Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, Unissued or Unmarked Speci

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:120.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 350.00 USD
Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, Unissued or Unmarked Speci
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England, ND (1900-1920). Odd Shares Unissued Stock Certificate, Black text with black border and light blue undertint. Two scenes at top center, one of beavers in wilderness, the other of ships at polar sea. Hudson Bay Co. seal at bottom center. VF condition. After incorporation by English royal charter in 1670, the company functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America for nearly 200 years until the HBC sold the land it owned (the entire Hudson Bay drainage basin, known as Rupert's Land) to Canada in 1869 as part of the Deed of Surrender, authorized by the Rupert's Land Act 1868. At its peak, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English- and later British-controlled North America. By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling a wide variety of products from furs to fine homeware in a small number of sales shops (as opposed to trading posts) across Canada. These shops were the first step towards the department stores the company owns today.