CH-0103 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Hudson’s Bay and North West companies amalgamate
The companies’ amalgamation in 1821 reorganized fur-trade employment and settlement, including at Red River.
Not publication-ready. Add local post histories and Métis perspectives; a business merger is not a transfer of every Indigenous territory.
- Historical place
- Prairies
- Present-day context
- Unknown — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Métis, First Nations, Fur-trade workers
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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Red River and Indigenous settlement, 1812–1850
Parks Canada · · Review: page opened
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-12. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Primary institutional reference opened; draft entry and event-specific geography require editorial review.