Royalty Free 19Th Century North America - Fort Of Hudson Bay Company premium stock clip art

DESCRIPTION

Vintage engraving of a Trading post and fort of the Hudson Bay Company. The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay and functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to some of those territories. It was at one time the largest landowner in the world, with the area of the Hudson Bay watershed, known as Rupert's Land, having 15% of North American acreage. Ferdinand Hirts Geographische Bildertafeln,1886. [b]View More:[/b] [url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2789749][img]http://www.walker1890.co.uk/istock/istock-engraving.jpg[/img][/url]