A. Barclay letter to H.U. Addington [manuscript], 1846 Feb. 23.

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A. Barclay letter to H.U. Addington [manuscript], 1846 Feb. 23.

Photocopy of letter from A. (Archibald?) Barclay, Esq., from the Hudson's Bay House, to H.U. Addington, Esq., of the Foreign Office, with enclosures of copies of additional letters "with reference to period [with] which Trade was commenced by British Subjects on the Upper Water of the Columbia."

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Addington, H.U.

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Barclay, A.

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Hudson's Bay Company

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The Hudson's Bay Company began in 1670, and by the 1820s it had expanded to the Pacific Northwest. John McLoughlin served as the head of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia district. In this position, which McLoughlin held for twenty-one years, he oversaw the company's operations throughout the entire Pacific Northwest. Researching the role Dr. McLoughlin played in the history of the Hudson's Bay Company were Robert C. Clark and Burt B. Barker. Both were historians at the University of Oregon wh...