George Simpson (HBC administrator)
Sir George Simpson was a Scottish explorer and colonial governor of the Hudson's Bay Company during the period of its greatest power. From 1820 to 1860, he was in practice, if not in law, the British viceroy for the whole of Rupert's Land, an enormous territory of 3.9 millions square kilometres corresponding to nearly forty per cent of modern-day Canada.
Simpson in a portrait by Stephen Pearce
Manoir Simpson, built in 1834 in Lachine, Montreal, next to the Fur Trade Depot, later became part of Collège Sainte-Anne
Sir George Simpson's Manor in Coteau-du-lac, later sold to the Comte de Beaujeu and Mrs. De Gaspé.
Lachine Canal, Montreal, mid 19th century
The Hudson's Bay Company is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, and now owns and operates retail stores across the country. The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay, commonly referred to as The Bay.
Trading at an HBC trading post
Depiction of the capture of York Factory by French forces in 1694
Depiction of an Indigenous woman wearing a Hudson's Bay point blanket, c. 1850
Depiction of the Battle of Seven Oaks, a violent confrontation between HBC and the North West Company during the Pemmican War
