Hudson's Bay Company
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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.
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
Saks Fifth Avenue
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Saks Fifth Avenue is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the F Street shopping district of Washington, D.C. in 1867. Saks expanded into Manhattan with its Herald Square store in 1902 and flagship store on Fifth Avenue in 1924. The chain was acquired by Tennessee-based Proffitt's, Inc. in 1998, and Saks, Inc. was acquired by the Canadian-based Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 2013.
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Saks and Co. and Kann's, NW corner of 7th St. and Pennsylvania Av., Washington, D.C., 1920.
SFA Miami Beach on Lincoln Road, 1940