Oregon City, Oregon
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Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 37,572. Established in 1829 by the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1844 it became the first U.S. city west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated.
The McLoughlin House, est. 1845
Detail from Oregon City on the Willamette River by John Mix Stanley, c. 1850s (Amon Carter Museum of American Art)
Willamette Falls and a paper mill at Oregon City, on the Willamette River
Municipal Elevator in Oregon City
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