It's the end of the line for The Bay in Banff.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

It's the end of the line for The Bay in Banff.

cbc.ca
Historic Hudson's Bay store in Banff to close | CBC News
The Hudson's Bay Company announced Monday its department store in Banff will shut its doors in August — a decision the company said

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[montanacowboy]

1. Oh no..

I loved that store.

[cbabe]

2. Hudson Bay company: colonizer

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mcloughlin_john/#.Y_UfmyU77YU

One of the most powerful and polarizing people in Oregon history, John McLoughlin championed the Hudson’s Bay Company’s (HBC) business interests in the Pacific Northwest. …

Following a short-lived relationship with an Ojibwa woman that produced one son, McLoughlin…

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http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_furtrade/fp_furtrade3.html

Many Hudson's Bay men secretly lived with Cree women, though it was against Company rules. Their children were known as "Half-breeds". Eventually the Hudson's Bay Company scrapped its rules, and the English Half-Breed families settled openly around the forts of the Hudson's Bay Company. The children in turn became employees of the Hudson's Bay Company.

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https://news.yahoo.com › hudsons-bay-gifts-winnipeg-flagship-building-manitoba-first-nations-organization-174219334.html

Hudson's Bay gifts Winnipeg flagship building to Manitoba First Nations ...

Apr 22, 2022The six-storey, 60,000-square metre Winnipeg location is one of the original six Hudson's Bay buildings which first opened in 1926. The building had undergone several rounds of renovation over the last few decades and received heritage designation from Winnipeg's city council in 2019. But in that year, an assessment of Hudson's Bay's real

[Bev54]

3. The Bay was bought out by a US private equity firm years ago, just another Canadian Icon sold

to foreign investors.