Excerpt from Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. 19 of 22: A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions by One Hundred Associates In 1670 Charles 11 issued the charter of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1783 the rival interests of Montreal merchants were reconciled in the founding of the north-west Company in 1811 the directors of the Hudson's Bay Company granted to Lord Selkirk for colonization purposes an area Of square miles. Widely separated as they were in time, and widely unrelated as they appeared in import, these three events released forces that shaped the destiny of Mani toba's first settlers. In the rivalry of the Hudson's Bay and north-west Companies or in the divergence of trading and colonizing interests are to be found the causes of most of the misfortunes that befell the pioneers of western civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.